Economics

Power, Politics, and Markets

The free market is not what it seems.

Politics Is Bananas

After years of relative neglect, consumption is once again being politicized.

The New Politics of Higher Education

The right’s fantasy of left power on campus has never been accurate.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

“The People Really Have the Power”

Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.

  • Noam Chomsky
  • David Barsamian

Risk-Sharing

Early Americans well understood that life and making a living were precarious.

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Landscape of Campaign Finance Reform

Lawrence Lessig walked across New Hampshire to put campaign finance reform back on the national agenda.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

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The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Can Succeed Where Politics Failed

The divestment movement’s moral clarity entails a risk if advocates shift from demonizing fossil fuels to demonizing the people who dig them up. 

  • David Keith
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