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Matthew LoftusEconomics

“You have got to feed the biology of the soil.” - Doctors Without Boredom

I have long been interested in the work of the Land Institute and their perennial crops, so I appreciated this story about how people are trying to use them: “Mainstream agriculture, they just don’t get it,” says Jerry Doan, standing […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

whither conservatism? - Doctors Without Boredom

While there’s a lot more that could be said and a lot of things that could be said differently (as I hope to in a forthcoming essay for Mere-O), I appreciated this assessment from Timothy Shenk at Dissent of where things are […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

whither conservatism? - Doctors Without Boredom

While there’s a lot more that could be said and a lot of things that could be said differently (as I hope to in a forthcoming essay for Mere-O), I appreciated this assessment from Timothy Shenk at Dissent of where things are […]

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

Is Burnout a Generational Issue or a Class Issue? - Commonplaces

If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout. My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after […]

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

Is Burnout a Generational Issue or a Class Issue? - Commonplaces

If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout. My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after […]

Matthew LoftusEconomicsCriminal Justicedirty moneycrime

$2.1 trillion in dirty money annually - Doctors Without Boredom

I felt like this interview itself was a little short and didn’t quite get to the point, but I am very interested in the degree to which the international finance industry might be reformed to help make corruption and crime […]

Matthew LoftusEconomicsCriminal Justicedirty moneycrime

$2.1 trillion in dirty money annually - Doctors Without Boredom

I felt like this interview itself was a little short and didn’t quite get to the point, but I am very interested in the degree to which the international finance industry might be reformed to help make corruption and crime […]

Matthew LoftusEconomicsdistributism

employee stock ownership plans - Doctors Without Boredom

I really appreciated Rachel Cohen’s discussion of what an employee stock ownership plan is and why there’s enthusiasm for them: Unlike conservatives, who have defended employee ownership on the grounds that it’s most certainly not socialism — indeed, it turns laborers into capitalists — […]

Matthew LoftusEconomicsdistributism

employee stock ownership plans - Doctors Without Boredom

I really appreciated Rachel Cohen’s discussion of what an employee stock ownership plan is and why there’s enthusiasm for them: Unlike conservatives, who have defended employee ownership on the grounds that it’s most certainly not socialism — indeed, it turns laborers into capitalists — […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

makes you wanna holler - Doctors Without Boredom

This report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (an organization doing more than any other, I think, to highlight where and how people can be working for the localism we like to talk about) highlights how dollar stores deliver low-quality goods […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

makes you wanna holler - Doctors Without Boredom

This report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (an organization doing more than any other, I think, to highlight where and how people can be working for the localism we like to talk about) highlights how dollar stores deliver low-quality goods […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthicsEconomics

Sabbath and soil - Doctors Without Boredom

Years ago, when I first studied Isaiah 58, I found its call to honor the Sabbath mingled with the call to do away with violence and injustice odd. I suppose that I had grown up thinking of Sabbath-keeping as a […]