szeptik

Perry Mehrling's course Economics of Money and Banking

https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking

The Constitution of Knowledge, by Jonathan Rauch

> YMMV, but if I search for "transgender" on Amazon.com in an incognito window, the very first result is the author's book.

My understanding of the author's point is that the book does not show up in a "you may also be interested in these books" kind of list, not the result of an explicit search.

As I understand it, conversion requires renouncing your previous faith. If you are referring to the practice of baptizing newborn babies, I don't think it can considered a conversion (much less a forced one) at all.

I am also confused by the idea of a theorem that can be refuted. As far as I know, if something can be refuted by experimental evidence then it cannot be a theorem.

"The results published by the IPCC and the official US National Climate Assessment suggest even that global warming will only have only minor effects on the world economy."

As the financial crisis has shown, I would be very careful before letting the future of the planet depend on the predictions of neoclassical economists. Professor Steve Keen, for example, has written[1] about the absurdity of some assumptions in which these predictions are based.

[1] https://profstevekeen.medium.com/economic-failures-of-the-ip...

I think a new Constitution is the only solution. It could be possible to reform the Spanish State to make it federal or confederal and hopefully this would be accepted by all the political forces involved. However, this new Constitution would have to be voted by all of Spanish citizens in a referendum, not only the Catalans.

The committee of 7 people that drafted the constitution included people from very different ideologies, for example a former member of the Franco government, a Catalan member of UCD, a Catalan nationalist, a socialist or a Catalan member of the communist party and they all agreed on the text that was voted. Were they all dominated by the Francoist regime? By that time Spain had already had democratic elections so, if that text were rejected the result would be to restart the constitutive process, not to go back to the dictatorship.

Ultimately we need to answer one question: is the current Spanish Constitution democratic or not? if it is, it does not matter how it came to be. Any changes could be done by a democratic process. If it is not, then all the Spanish citizens are affected and a whole new constitutive process is needed where all the citizens vote, not only Catalans.

The current Spanish constitution was voted with more than 90% of support in Catalonia. Should that not count as self-determination?

When it comes to macro, it is pretty useless. See for example the polemic caused by this paper by Paul Romer, chief economist of the World Bank: https://paulromer.net/trouble-with-macroeconomics-update/