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From Milton Friedman to Ronald Dworkin: economics for hedgehogs | #SocialEthics on Blog#42

Sometimes, a straightforward question leads one to deeper, more existential thinking… Continue reading From Milton Friedman to Ronald Dworkin: economics for hedgehogs | #SocialEthics on Blog#42

Restoring our Democracy: Calling the NAACP and MoralMondays

Now that Election 2014 is over and we await whatever happens next in the Democratic camp, progressives need to step up efforts to take their rightful place at the helm of the party.

It is clear that voter disengagement was more a function of the unwillingness to keep voting in the status quo, than it was the abandonment of the Democratic party. It should be taken as a warning to Democrats that the party, as it is now, not only stopped reflecting the popular view, but has also allowed itself to be dragged into the Republicans’ dangerous race politics. Continue reading Restoring our Democracy: Calling the NAACP and MoralMondays

Timothy Egan: Walmart, Starbucks, and the Fight Against Inequality – NYTimes

Timothy Egan

For some time now, Republicans in Congress have given up the pretense of doing anything to improve the lot of most Americans. Raising the minimum wage? They won’t even allow a vote to happen. Cleaner air for all? They may partially shut down the government in a coming fight on behalf of major polluters. Add to that the continuing obstruction of student loan relief efforts, and numerous attempts to defund health care, and you have a party actively working to make life miserable for millions.

So, our nation turns to Starbucks. And Walmart. In the present moment, both of those global corporate monoliths are poised to do more to affect the huge chasm between the rich and everybody else than anything that’s likely to come out of John Boehner’s House of Representatives. Continue reading Timothy Egan: Walmart, Starbucks, and the Fight Against Inequality – NYTimes