Go Ned Go!

A nice run-down on Ned Lamont in the Washington Post.  He’s challenging Joe Leibermann for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Connecticut.

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Galbraith’s passing

Sadly, John Kenneth Galbraith passed away over the weekend.  The Toronto Star had a nice article about him.  Not only having a varied and interesting life, he articulated ideas that continue to better describe the modern economy than many, more widely held theories. 

A book that I was recently reading, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement, drew heavily on his ideas about the manufacturing of demand in the modern economy in the process of explaining how the internet and different forms of content and file sharing are disrupting the traditional economy.