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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This will read familiar to my own readers. Data here is very telling. We rediscover our own Hamiltonianism and labors' calling shots or we lapse into backwater barbarism. Please read and share widely if you've time. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

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Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

French prosecutors announced today that they are launching a police investigation into Elon Musk's X platform over allegations of data tampering and fraud.

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Ha! When the mummy that my mortal coil will have become is uncovered in the Negev or along the Silk Road some 2000 years from today, it will have this same bowl cut. 😅❤️🙏🏼

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We are joined by @roberthockett.bsky.social to discuss the new non-partisan analysis that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4 trillion to annual budget deficits over the next decade while throwing 10.9 million Americans off healthcare and food stamps. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

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Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest

Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @roberthockett.bsky.social - Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich | Oleh Kotsyuba - Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | @mohsenmilani.bsky.social - Trump Pressures Iran to Sign or Get Bombed

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

2/2 ... time of writing, but the core idea has very wide application. Most of my 'high theory' justice and meta-justice writing thereafter, both as a student and as a new academic before the 2008 crash, went to elaborating. E.g. ... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Putting Distribution First

It is common for normative legal theorists, economists and other policy analysts to conduct and communicate their work mainly in maximizing terms. They take the

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

1/2. Excellent. While a student, I was struck by the realization that what George was actually on about was the unearned and anti-productive character of Ricardian rents. Ricardo's interests were of course land-rooted bc of his class position and ...

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Brilliant, my friend - thank you. Upon first glance, it looks like a generalization of Georgeist principles, taxing away most Ricardian rents. Correct? Will circle-back after reading ... TY again!

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hear hear, my friend. Been working on this in Eire since 2017. The horror there is every bit as horrible as here.

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thinking that might be right, my friend. Will report back as the current semester winds-down.

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Can't help myself ... I hear a phrase like 'Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem' or a sentence like 'Marco Rubio is closely monitoring the situation' and I start laughing involuntarily. My belly hurts.

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esqtv.bsky.social @esqtv.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social "Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To explore the data in this thread in full via interactive charts, you can visit the Centre for Democratising Work’s data dashboard (2024) www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...

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Centre for Democratising Work Dashboard

What is work in Britain like? Explore working time, the power of labour, and the quality of work with the CDW's interactive data dashboard.

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“8 hours for work. 8 hours for rest. 8 hours for what we will.” On 1 May 1886, thousands of American workers & trade unionists went on strike for the right to an 8-hour day. Despite state violence — they won. 🧵What role do trade unions play in Britain, 139 years on?

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In case you missed it, here’s the Hymnus Eucharisticus sung from the top of the Great Tower for May Morning by Magdalen College Choir!

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Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Uncle Ho kept two portraits on his wall - one of Confucius, the other of George Washington. Those who told you he was a scawy would-be world-dominator are the same deep-state filth who murdered JFK for planning to reverse Eisenhower's disgusting pro-French-colonial course in Vietnam.