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The HMOs and their managed care systems — first supported in the Nixon years — ballooned from a headache to a plague…
Douglas Dowd
The 80th anniversary of the birth of Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd was in December 1999. His long and distinguished career has been characterized by a fruitful marriage of scholarship and activism. Firmly on the political Left, Dowd belongs within an indigenous American tradition of dissenting radicalism whose most famous - perhaps notorious - representatives are Thorstein Veblen and C. Wright Mills. Taking care neither to "mumble" like the former nor "shout" like the latter, Dowd has been an articulate and persistent critic of the American experience for more than 40 years, engaging both students and the wider public. In 1997, he published his semiautobiographical economic history of twentieth-century America [Dowd 1997a]. It exemplifies Dowd`s scholarly engagement in public life, meshing together the personal, the professional, and the political.
If you are reading this you don’t need to be told of globalization’s always greater harm to U.S. industrial workers, nor about…
My previous ZCom was on possibilities/probabilities of deflation/depression. This is meant to supplement that argument. I should note at the outset that…
In U.S. economic history, there have been only two periods of sustained deflation: from 1873 to 1897 and the 1930s. Their length…
Since our birth in 1776 and Israel”s rebirth in 1948, the two nations have had some important thngs in common. Most important…
Since our birth in 1776 and Israel”s rebirth in 1948, the two nations have had some important thngs in common. Most important…
The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had…
Dowd The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way…
Doug Dowd Just when we’re about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service —…
Doug Dowd The New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was…