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What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)

Like many people, my wife and I used the pandemic to make some big changes in our lives. We left our academic careers as tenured...

Can Money Fail?

A version of this blog was originally posted on Quora, March 5, 2022. With economic systems, there are at least two kinds of failure....

The Myth about Marx

You don't have to like communism or Marxism to learn something valuable from Marx. Here it is . . .

"Encouragement as Work"

Many of us seem to be asking ourselves what we want from our jobs in the broadest possible way, a decent wage is but one desideratum.

What Is Meaningful Work?

The general idea of meaningful work is that the job one does or the career one adopts in some way contributes to a meaningful life.

The Myth of Self-Sufficiency

The political notion of self-sufficiency that often informs aggressive claims to individual rights is more problematic than at first glance.