August 04, 2021

04 Agosto 2021

We had an alternative path that would have required the sharing of knowledge and expertise, and overriding patent rights. We did not go this path.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

The Saving Rate is Still High: Evidence on the Post-Pandemic Economy

By Dean BakerDean Baker

August 01, 2021

01 Agosto 2021

The fact that we are still seeing a saving rate that is well above the pre-pandemic level goes against the view that people would rush out and spend as soon as they had the opportunity.

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad IntelectualTechnology

Will Dr. Fauci’s “Prototype” Vaccines Be Given to Pfizer and Moderna So that We Can Complain About Technology Creating Inequality?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 26, 2021

26 Julio 2021

Ideally it would place patent rights in the public domain, both so that scientists around the world can quickly build on the new innovations produced by this research, and so that any vaccines developed can be sold as cheap generics.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInequalityLa Desigualdad

Is There a Progressive Case Against Quantitative Easing?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 26, 2021

26 Julio 2021

Few people who have analyzed the impact of QE following the Great Recession would dispute that it was responsible for several million jobs.

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

Do Republicans Distrust the IRS in the Same Way Bank Robbers Distrust the Police?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 25, 2021

25 Julio 2021

The piece implies that Republicans in Congress would be happy to go along with increased funding for tax enforcement if it were done by someone other than the IRS. There is absolutely zero reason to believe this is true.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Inflation as People Experience It and as Economists Measure It

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 22, 2021

22 Julio 2021

We all know that economic measures cannot fully capture the state of people’s well-being. A big part of that picture is the inadequacy of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living in any real sense.

• Intellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Patent Monopolies, Corruption, and the New Alzheimer’s Drug

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 20, 2021

20 Julio 2021

It would be nice if we could one day have a serious discussion of alternative mechanisms for financing research instead of acting as though the patent system came down to us from god.

• COVID-19CoronavirusIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

The Drug Companies Are Killing People

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 18, 2021

18 Julio 2021

They are using their government-granted patent monopolies, and their control over technical information about the production of vaccines, to limit the supply of vaccines available to the world.

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

Can We Cut the Crap on “Unconstrained Globalized Capitalism”?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 18, 2021

18 Julio 2021

I get why the right likes to make it seem that the huge upward redistribution of the last four decades was just the result of the market working its magic, but why do so many liberals feel the need to play along?

• GovernmentEl GobiernoInequalityLa Desigualdad

Washington Post Has Another Pulitzer Prize Contender in Mind Reading Category, Tells Us Why Republican Senators Don’t Want to Increase I.R.S. Enforcement

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 18, 2021

18 Julio 2021

Thankfully we have the Washington Post to tell us that the Republican effort to block a crackdown on rich tax cheats had nothing to do with serving their campaign contributors.