Why the Green New Deal might probably not work as we envision it.

This will be a short diary; actually it is a portal for listening to an interesting and engaging economist lecture by Mark Blyth of Brown University. Head of their Watson Center, I have listened to him on and off for years because not only does he have a broad understanding of domestic and international economics, but has a lot of insight into the political mechanizations needed to make economic and policy ideas work, or how to break them. This is titled “Burning Down the House”, given to the LSE European...