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Summer 2019

Economics After Neoliberalism

Rejecting the market fundamentalism that has prevailed under four decades of neoliberalism, this issue makes a powerful case for a new brand of economics—one focused on power and inequality and aimed at a more inclusive society.

 

Editors’ Note
Joshua Cohen

 

Essays

Robert Manduca
In the 1940s and ’50s, the general public understood and agreed upon Keynesian economic principles. Today, we can learn a lot from the popularizing efforts that led to that consensus and long-lasting economic success.
Samuel Bowles, Joshua Cohen
The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?
Lenore Palladino

For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.

Quinn Slobodian

Three new books paint a chilling portrait of darkness in Wall Street, the law, and technology. But the apocalyptic metaphors obscure the real problem, hindering how we fight back.

Amy Kapczynski

A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.

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