The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.