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By jdupuis on July 25, 2013.
  • How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
  • The Fall of the American Worker
  • The Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle-class into the new proletariat
  • Giving Away Our Lunch
  • Reminders about the Economics of Becoming an Academic
  • Econ 101 is killing America: Forget the dumbed-down garbage most economists spew. Their myths are causing tragic results for everyday Americans
  • What Is College For?
  • The Great Dereliction
  • The Stakes for All of Us (higher education reform must be approached very carefully)
  • Cash-Strapped Universities Turn to Corporate-Style Consolidation
  • Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy
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