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Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities. Rather than court venture capital, cities must build new institutions to grow neighborhood wealth.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
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