last updated: January 6, 2012

 

Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, reading a recent issue, looked up to declare that LBO is full of “wonderful rants and some very interesting facts.”

goodies:

LBO editor Doug Henwood’s late-1980s pieces for the late journal Grand Street

Does Paul Krugman crib from LBO?

Read this, and answer for yourself!

My review of Jeffrey Sachs, mentioned on my November 26 show, is here


in prep: LBO #134:

despair revised by movement • U.S. income and poverty in 2010: miserable


 

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freshly posted material from recent issues

In and out of school How the U.S. stacks up internationally on education spending, enrollment, attainment (hint: not so well)

Beastly numbers How do you explain educational outcomes? Poverty, mostly.

What a damn mess Just how bad does this economy suck? Real bad.

2009: income down, poverty up, more uninsured income & poverty in the U.S.

Charter to nowhere Do charter schools work, and if so, for whom?

Old world, new crisis The EU melodrama

 


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