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Tag: Economy

Rachel Fraser

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Andrew Schrank
Will Holub-Moorman

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran, Amy Kapczynski

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Clark Randall

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

Salim Vally, Enver Motala

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class. His writings remain essential.

Angus Deaton

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Shobita Parthasarathy

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

Jonathan Levy

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

Jo Guldi

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Timothy Weaver

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

Pranab Bardhan

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Alex Raskolnikov

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.

James G. Chappel

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Kevin P. Donovan

Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need. 

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Karen Levy

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

Anthony Morgan, Kate Soper, Lynne Segal

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

Lenore Palladino

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

Rajan Menon

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

Kate Soper

Austerity is not the only way to save our overextended planet. A simpler life might be both more pleasurable and more equal.

Martijn Konings

The Federal Reserve's bid to "get wages down" reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.

Matthew Cole

Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.

Jonathan Kirshner

His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

Breanne Fahs

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Matthew Crain

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Jamie Martin

To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.

Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.

Sandeep Vaheesan

Corporate restructurings are not a cure-all, but they would tilt the balance of power toward ordinary Americans.

Simon Torracinta
How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.
Emily Callaci

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

Jonathan Kirshner
Why we should err on the side of inaction—and why we won’t.
Brian Callaci
Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.
Madeline Lane-McKinley

Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

Dan Breznitz

To generate local, inclusive prosperity, cities must think beyond tech accelerators and science parks and instead embrace a wider range of innovation strategies.

Jayati Ghosh, C. P. Chandrasekhar

Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.

Paul Hockenos

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel, Josh Ryan-Collins

We need a mission-oriented approach to the economy that embraces an active role for government in spurring growth and innovation.

Andrew Elrod

Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.

J. W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev
With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets.
Simon Torracinta

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty. We could use more of his improvisatory optimism today.

Prabhat Patnaik

The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.

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