GhostOnTheHalfShell

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Economics

#SteveKeen #economics @academicchatter

"A fundamental requirement for realistic economics is to abandon the 19th century (in)convenience of assuming equilibrium, and to instead model the economy as a dynamic (and evolving) system. This raises the question of how to treat time itself, and the appalling pun in the title of this chapter highlights the fact that economic modellers in general, ... have habitually treated time as a discrete rather than a continuous ..."

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/im-not-discreet-and-neither-is-time-bcb

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Nordhaus is an economist who wrote papers in the 80s to trivialize the consequence of climate change. He is allied with other individuals that worked to spread corporate disinformation on tobacco, asbestos, CFCs and acid rain. His papers provided policy legitimatization to ignore climate change. Koch is more widely known for his own activities and has sponsored science denial. The result is climate crisis.

#climateChange #mastoart #politicalcartoon #opinion

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 11 months ago to politics

Channel 4

Half a million more UK kids drop into poverty

8 min video

This is your country on Tory policy. Much of it sounds like the description of Stalin’s Russia, a land of hunger, misery and terror.

poisoned food. hunger. privation. polluted water. corruption and apparatchiks to the ruling class a bunch of plutocrats.

it never changes

https://youtu.be/jhsfInLbbnM

#ukpol #politics #poverrty

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 year ago to random

this is the “trivial” consequence of climate change Nordhaus talked about. This is the consequence of a delusional ideology masquerading as an academic discipline.

people who promote this delusion are genocidal criminals.

CBS How severe flooding has impacted California farmers in Central Valley

2 min video

https://youtu.be/afFMlZdV7mA

#climateChange #california #flooding #ClimateWhiplash #economics

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 6 months ago to instagramreality

Nov 20

8 min video

BigPlatform and AI content moderation..

what could go wrong?

https://youtu.be/npl1yC5PrY8

#socialMedia #commentary

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Economics

#MMT #economics #SteveKeen

For anyone with an interest in monetary policy/MMT.

MMT accurately describes monetary systems for sovereign currency nations (eg US and UK). It refutes the talking points of debt scolds and the idea that taxes pay for anything.

Anyone concerned with federal budget or economy, should at least understand the concepts, because it blows a hole in political talking points.

Be informed, so you can judge poltical gaslighting

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/using-system-dynamics-with-minsky

#uspol #ukpol

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 8 months ago to BurningMan

sep 7

Self Reliance

12 min video

Ever notice the US has a self reliance myth it needs to slap on everything?

Oh yah, it happened at burnin man.

https://youtu.be/aq07v_vYFvM

#burningman #news #commentary

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

dec 18

12 min video

Wanna save the planet? Change your town's zoning laws. Yes, really. They matter immensely.

Best of all, none of us have to be a billionaire oil baron to do so. In fact, they might get pissed off. I consider this a perk.

:ablobcathappypaws:

https://youtu.be/DShceqqNlQo

#climagechange #urbanPlanning #urbanDesign #economy #economics

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 months ago to twitter

#BeauOfTheFifth

6 min video

At the 2-3 min mark Beau discusses the change in Twitter. No longer a source of breaking news but disinformation to manufacture consent.

It may not be news here, but it is noteworthy. Reporters that rely on it should take note they aren’t in Kansas anymore.

https://youtu.be/YPFWqhAXsq4

#Twitter #X #press #journalism

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 3 days ago to random

#MorePerfectUnion

:ablobwobble:

BREAKING: The Justice Department and 30 U.S. states have filed a sweeping lawsuit charging Live Nation-Ticketmaster with running illegal monopolies over ticketing and concert promotion. “It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster," Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxi2qL6xnM7cqagpcEAqODbeOdw9VB7J9Q

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 29 days ago to random

"Break things and move fast", ; says every vandal down the ages

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 year ago to politics

Rightwing libertarianism which also flies under the economic ideology of neoliberalism, asks the people of a nation to cede their political agency to wealth. It is the essence of privatization.

Wealth can always get their way, that is the nature of economic power. Those with less wealth have to band together to promote their interests. This is known as government. When Reagan/Thatcher said government is the problem, what they really said was a republic was the problem.

#politics #economics

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 25 days ago to random

#zeteo #uspol

6 min

crazy Iran…

https://youtu.be/xDGm-LAKXuM

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 25 days ago to Economics

@economics

#economics #ubi @ineteconomics (inactive but sheesh!)

2 min

Gee, baby bonds (or ubi) or tax cuts for billionaires? :ablobthinking: decisions decisions

https://youtu.be/-E--1xRydV0

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 25 days ago to Humor

#humor

Nazis are not what they used to be. Kids these days! 😂

3 min

https://youtu.be/0jLI-1-1Fe8

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 16 days ago to climate

@economics@a.gup.pe

#climatechange #degrowth 😑 #economics

This is the face of degrowth by means of climate inaction. Degrowth is not a future, it’s already underway.

https://youtu.be/-wYOkjVtBY4

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 15 days ago to climate

Our #aurora generating magnetosphere, a geophysical #UBI, an environmental, ecological, economic UBI we don’t even think of that billionaires and their pet economists say they are competent to substitute for.

Consider the enormity of their egotistical folly.

Even Star Fleet would choose a 7C warmer Earth or an irradiated nuked Earth over a Mars. Technology has nothing to do with it. Wisdom does.

#uspol #climatechange #economics

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to geopolitics

@economics@a.gup.pe

#StrongTowns #ushistory #housing #uspol #economy

20 min

History is useful.

Useful history on US housing and economy from the great depression since to today’s deeply messed up housing and economic structure. Also the US housing market can be fixed through local measures. Cities have taken the first step to loosen zoning laws; financing remains a challenge.

https://youtu.be/OtJD45cTV9c

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 hour ago to random

#askfedi
Is there any way to filter following list to find someone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 month ago to climate

#SteveKeen #climatechange #economics

Mainstream economist assertions:
"Tipping points reduce global consumption per capita by around 1% upon 3°C warming and by around 1.4% upon 6°C warmings, based on a second-order polynomial fit of the data."

Keen: This was simply ridiculous. A planet missing those 8 critical elements of the Holocene environment would be totally unlike the one we currently inhabit.

guess what mainstream economists replied?

🧵

https://www.planksip.org/none-so-blind-as-those-who-will-not-see/

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 18 hours ago to random

#askfedi #animatedMovies

There’s an Italian(?) animated short involving mosquitoes living off a sleeping human, as an allegory for modern dependence on oil.

I don’t remember the name. Anyone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Duck around and find out.

GOP nuked Roe and is going after women still. The ladies are not liking it (funny how being a target of persecution is not a fetish). I guess getting away with anything you want has limits.

I don’t think the GOP can get rid of the right to vote for women quick enough.

Republicans Fear Women Voters Will Destroy Trump's Election Chances

5 min video.

https://youtu.be/yy3OhNTwd2c

#uspol #trump

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 9 days ago to random

We'll see how long it lasts or if it can ramp up there.

Mass famine is underway in the North and spreading South. At best 150 trucks a day can only lightly mitigate the death toll already set in motion.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to Economics

@economics@a.gup.pe
@economics

#economics #uspol

May 21

7 min

https://youtu.be/eknE5NjNMQg

🧵

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 3 days ago to random

@AbandonedAmerica

https://youtu.be/Nw2j2-YSknU