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About Kevin Cashman

Kevin Cashman does research at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which is sometimes posted on the CEPR website. This has focused on making visualizations and tools to illustrate labor market data, argue for more equitable policies, or debunk myths (e.g. that minimum wages correlate with higher unemployment, that certain industries face labor shortages, or that robots are taking our jobs). He is also a contributor for Economic Questions, have guest posts on Naked Capitalism, and write in a few other places, mostly about technology.
  • Picture from 1992, La Paz Bolivia

    OAS involvement in Bolivia precipitated the coup

    Originally published: Historicly on November 14, 2019 (more by Historicly)

    Let’s put an end to this nonesense that’s peddled by MSM.

  • Embracing industrial policy and economic planning is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental damage.

    “There is no alternative” to managing the economy and the climate

    Originally published: Economic Questions on May 12, 2019 (more by Economic Questions)  |

    The United States is the country most easily positioned to address climate change but it has done likely the least out of any rich country. China, a country significantly less wealthy than the United States, has likely done the most. In fact, a recent study provides some evidence that China’s carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2013 and are declining in large part due to changes in China’s industrial structure, which includes pilot programs for pricing carbon, among many other things.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor Cuban Flag, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba, 2012

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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