Marshall Steinbaum
Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute.
A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda
Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.
The New Politics of Higher Education
The right’s fantasy of left power on campus has never been accurate.
Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality
Inequality, he shows, is not our destiny; it is our choice.
Games Economists Play
The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum’s new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.
Marx’s New Deal
On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.
A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed
When college is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all.
The Book that Explains Charlottesville
The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?
Capital in the Twenty-First Century raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore.
Who’s Afraid of the Student Debt Crisis?
Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.
