Tag: Economy

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.