Robert Hockett

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

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...

Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance Buy Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance 1 by Hockett, Robert C. (ISBN: 9781509570058) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

OK UK Dears, HC's out at last. www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Capit...

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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A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance [Hockett, Robert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance

Looks like we have a new Amazon page. Thanks for the heads-up, Alan Thomas. 🙏🏼❤️ www.amazon.com/Republic-Pro...

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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. 😅❤️🙏🏼

ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.

Karma, except that the detained are in peril along with the detainers. F'king boobs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

Boobs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Opinion | Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back

Boob. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

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

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...

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

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....

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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 ...

Yep. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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!

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

Part 2 finally up!

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

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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Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social

"Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."