Elsewhere

• Ezra Klein writes about John Kenneth Galbraith's concept of countervailing power.
• Ingrid Kvangraven and Carolina Alves are busting myths about heterodox economics. I have written before about economics as a study of the reproduction of society.
• Ben Holland, of Bloomberg News, writes an article, Marco Rubio puts out a paper citing obscure left-wing economists. Rubio's position paper is here. I do not find, say, Wynne Godley, Hyman Minsky, Mariana Mazzucato, and many proponents of Modern Monetary Theory and Stock-Flow Consistent modeling particularly obscure or left-wing.
• Perspectives on Politics, a journal of political science, has a special issue, with open access on the causes and consequences of Trump.