Missoula Trying to find a transmission place that might fix the old truck, I checked the headlines. Big story in the Times was the fact that a new economic mobility and demographic study by economists is establishing that it matters where you are born. Ok, now tell me the news? Looking more deeply the …
Month: July 2013
Stop Signs for Social Change with James C. Scott
Rock Creek Frankly, part of the quest in reading is not only the search for knowledge, entertainment, and active resistance to boredom, but the hope of finding external confirmation for your own thinking and work. The first 325 pages of James C. Scott’s, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale 1985) can be …
The New Economy, Older and Part-time Workers, and Fulltime Exploitation
Missoula With the truck brought to the curb with transmission problems, I found myself in this small, university-based town for the weekend. Looking for a guy who knew mechanics, I walked through a Saturday farmers’ market near the river that was jumping with young families and children with strollers abounding and smartphones crushed to their …