Economy

The Friendship that Changed Economics

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman transformed how we think about economics and human behavior.

  • Andrew Stark

When Economics Had Ethics

Remembering Kenneth Arrow

  • Debra Satz

The President’s House Is Empty

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

  • Bonnie Honig

Is Globalization to Blame?

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

  • Dean Baker
with responses from
  • Peter Evans
  • Robert Lepenies
  • Susan N. Houseman
  • Michael J. Piore
  • Harley Shaiken
  • Alan Tonelson
  • Daron Acemoglu

Who’s Afraid of the Student Debt Crisis?

Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

  • Alex de Waal

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How Not to Argue for Basic Income

When proponents deploy the logic of market competition, they undermine democracy and social equality.

  • Brishen Rogers

For the Wealthy, Citizenship at a Premium

Malta, Portugal, and Spain offer quick routes to passports for global elite willing to pay. This raises fundamental questions about the meaning and value of citizenship.

  • Max Holleran

The New World Order

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

  • Matthew Karp

The End of Work

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

  • Claude S. Fischer

No Easy End to Prison Profiteering

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

  • Christopher Petrella

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren’t the magic bullet for economic growth.

  • Ben Armstrong

Common Property

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

  • Elizabeth Anderson

Do Government Incentives Make Us Bad Citizens?

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

  • John McMahon

The Forgotten State

Local government can’t fix our problems. Only big government can.

  • Mike Konczal

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

The Privatization of Hope

Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

  • Ronald Aronson

Out with the Old, in with the Old

Lessons from Iceland’s brush with the Panama Papers.

  • Janet Elise Johnson

The Racist Dawn of Capitalism

Recent histories of slavery and capitalism ignore radical black scholarship.

  • Peter James Hudson

Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White

A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel
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