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[China Hearsay] For me, I do see a real trade-off. I never bought into the notion that the green economy would allow for a seamless transition from existing technologies without (at least) a short-term hit to growth, jobs, etc.
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[The Littlest Bird] Why I Will Homeschool my Kids: Thus I was less surprised than I might have been to open Walter Kotschnig’s Unemployment in the Leamed Professions (1937) - which I purchased from a college graduate down on his luck for 50 cents off a blanket on the street in front of Columbia University - to find myself listening to an argument attributing the rise of Nazism directly to the expansion of German university enrollment after WWI. For Germany, this had been a short-term solution to postwar unemployment, like the G.I.
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