Thirteen students at six California State University campuses have started a hunger strike to protest budget cuts and increased tuition.
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 3 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, debt, education, healthcare, Republicans, students, Supreme Court
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 19 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, crisis, education, rich, taxes, unions, United States, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 6 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: academy, austerity, banks, cartoon, debt, education, inequality, politics, poverty, rich, students, taxes, United States
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 4 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, California, cartoon, education, politics, Republicans, Supreme Court, United States
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Replace economics with anything, “even gardening classes”
Posted: 2 April 2012 in UncategorizedTags: economics, economists, education, neoclassical
source What have we learned about how to change the teaching of economics since the crisis of 2007-08 and now in the midst of the Second Great Depression? To judge from the New York Times symposium, not a whole helluva lot. Former economics student Mona Chalabi is clear both about what was wrong with the [...]
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 30 March 2012 in UncategorizedTags: academy, budget cuts, cartoon, climate change, education, politics, Republicans, taxes, United States
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 29 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, education, Iran, students, Syria, violence, war
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Hard times—for these times
Posted: 10 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, class, education, literature, medicine, unemployment
OK, let’s give Mr. Gradgrind what he wants: the facts. Austerity in Greece is killing people, literally. Greek doctors are fighting a new invisible foe every day at their hospitals: a pneumonia-causing superbug that most existing antibiotics can’t kill. . . George Daikos, an associate professor of medicine at Laiko General, won one battle last [...]
Economics at the margins
Posted: 6 February 2012 in UncategorizedTags: economics, education, neoclassical
A decade ago, I gave a lecture on “Teaching at the Margins.”* Now, it seems, Adam Davidson [ht: bn] has admitted to having discovered the validity of the views of those who think at the margins of mainstream economics. Davidson seems surprised that the analyses of Nouriel Roubini and Richard Wolff, according to which capitalism [...]
