Nancy Folbre: Occupy Economics
From Nancy Folbre’s NYT Economix post, Occupy Economics:
The Occupy Wall Street movement, displaced from some key geographic locations, now enjoys a small but significant encampment among economists.
Concerns about the impact of growing economic inequality fit neatly into a larger critique of mainstream economic theory and its deep faith in the efficiency of markets.
Read the rest of the article here.
We are the 99%
Animation on U.S. income distribution from The Guardian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6Ji-fSlTk&feature=player_embedded
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation
If U.S. land were divided like U.S. wealth
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/27/354837/land-distribution-american-wealth/
What Is the Economy For, Anyway?
http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/citizeneconomy/main.html
Sensible thinking about a central question.
Introducing Economics
http://introducingeconomics.org/
A compendium of useful resources for high school economics teachers.
Nuclear Explosions Since 1945
A powerful visualization of the nuclear war on mother Earth.
by aConcernedHuman on Oct 24, 2010
ICAPE: International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics
http://www.icape.org/
“Dedicated to the idea that pluralism and intellectual progress are complements.”
