It's called the dismal science because of all those gray lines of figures, but the name might stick because as a science it has been a dismal failure. Abused by ideologues and self-serving liars, puffed up beyond its accomplishments in academia, with a deserved reputation for predicting the obvious and getting even that wrong, economics has failed its function and its potential. In this, a world predicated on economic relationships. Dismal.
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Slackers 90s: Land of the Frazzled, Home of the Frayed
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Above: interior of The Beehive on Pittsburgh's South Side, an expression of
Gen X and Slacker culture in the 1990s. Below: art on the walls of the
South S...
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