Someone sent a post recently wondering if self-dubbed progressive economists
had anything of worth to contribute to a concrete discussion about the
current conjuncture of U.S. capitalism.
I'm not an economist, but in the spirit of the question posed, and from
my vantage point as a resident of
I'm beginning to get the feeling that California's soon-to-be-massive
prison-building project is a bizarre substitute for the WPA and other
public-works projects: think of all the prison guard jobs there will
be, not to mention jobs as cooks, skip-tracers, wardens etc.
The construction of prisons
