Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.