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Robert Hockett: Why Is Uber Über Alles? Public Platform Infrastructure for the ‘Gig Economy’

January 15, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Most of the platform infrastructure used by the ‘gig economy’ is both easy to replicate and cheap to provide, such that private providers are mere rent-extractors. The upshot is that we both can and should […]

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Economics

Macro & Cheese – Robert Hockett: FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency

January 4, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

All digital currency is not created equal. Its technology can potentially be used as a force for good or a force of evil. Robert Hockett joins Steve to discuss both. Let’s start with the evil. […]

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Economics

Macro & Cheese – Robert Hockett: The Citizens’ Ledger

August 4, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Robert Hockett joins Steve to talk about his latest book, The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future. The episode is right at home in our archive of interviews around the topics of fintech, […]

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Zack Exley, Robert Hockett: Inflicting pain on workers to fix inflation isn’t just unfair. It’s stupid, ineffective, and completely unnecessary

July 13, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Just last year, economists and policy-makers were still debating whether inflation was worth worrying about. Some argued that it would be a transitory phenomenon with little real impact on working Americans. Others suggested that things […]

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Robert Hockett: Liquidity Reserves and Commodity Reserves: A Marriage Proposal

June 16, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Public liquidity reserves (a.k.a. ‘central banks’) must merge operations with public commodity reserves (a.k.a. ‘strategic stockpiles’) now that the world has rediscovered production and more prices than ever need collaring Read Here

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Economics

Robert Hockett – US ‘Energy Independence’ Is Real, ‘Global Prices’ Are Not: A Short-Term Oil Production & Price Mitigation Plan

June 9, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why US oil prices are not determined by the world market price Robert Hockett is  the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University Cross-posted from Forbes Photo: Flcelloguy […]

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Economics

Robert Hockett: Make America Make Again

May 2, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Three errors, all stemming from obsolete and discredited 1990s and early 2000s style thinking, have vitiated our national responses to inflation thus far. Counterpart errors, as it happens, account for our past 50 years’ economic, […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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