Economy

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Making Aid Work

Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need hard evidence—like randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
with responses from
  • Ian Goldin & F. Halsey Rogers & Nicholas Stern
  • Mick Moore
  • Ian Vásquez
  • Angus Deaton
  • Alice H. Amsden
  • Robert H. Bates
  • Carlos Barbery
  • Howard White
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Didier Jacobs & Raymond C. Offenheiser
  • Ruth Levine

The Common Interest

Is it time for national health insurance?

  • John Geyman

What’s Hurting the Middle Class

Critics say Americans are over-borrowing. The data tell a different story.

  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Amelia Warren Tyagi
with responses from
  • Jacob S. Hacker
  • Jonathan Gruber
  • G. Marcus Cole
  • Jeff Madrick
  • Stephen Brobeck
  • David Crockett
  • Chuck Collins
  • A. Mechele Dickerson
  • Tamara Draut
  • Jared Bernstein
  • Robert D. Manning
  • Juliet B. Schor

Rich World, Poor World

On Francis Fukuyama’s State-Building.

  • Mick Moore

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq

  • Duncan Kennedy

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What Comes After Welfare Reform?

How we can ensure economic security for all Americans

  • J. Larry Brown
  • Larry W. Beeferman

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

  • Erik Olin Wright
  • Rachel Dwyer

Business and Democracy

Paul Buhle’s Taking Care of Business and Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle’s Democracy is Power  

  • J. W. Mason

Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

Moving Out of the Ghetto

The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Robert Coles
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Gary Orfield
  • James E. Rosenbaum
  • Alexander Polikoff

A Basic Income for All

It’s the best way to secure real freedom and justice for everyone.

  • Philippe Van Parijs
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Herbert A. Simon
  • Wade Rathke
  • Emma Rothschild
  • Edmund S. Phelps
  • Brian Barry
  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Anne L. Alstott
  • Ronald Dore
  • Fred Block
  • Robert E. Goodin
  • Katherine McFate
  • Peter Edelman
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Claus Offe

Real Tax Reform

The case for a progressive consumption tax

  • Edward J. McCaffery

The New Politics of Consumption

Somebody needs to be for quality of life, not just quantity of stuff.

  • Juliet B. Schor
with responses from
  • Robert H. Frank
  • James Twitchell
  • Jack Gibbons
  • Clair Brown
  • Betsy Taylor
  • Douglas B. Holt
  • Craig J. Thompson
  • Michèle Lamont & Virág Molnár
  • Lawrence Mishel & Jared Bernstein & John Schmitt

The Car As Hero

Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

  • Neil Shister

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

  • Jeff Gates
with responses from
  • Sewin Chan & Henry Schneider & Joseph Tracy
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • William H. Simon

Development—but at What Cost?

An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).

  • Shiv Visvanathan
  • Jay Mandle

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle

Democracy or Neoliberalism?

  • Atilio Boron

A Better Democracy, A Better Economy

The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.

  • Adam Przeworski

Reviving Unions

With all that unions are up against, only a radically different approach can help us start winning again.

  • Stephen Lerner
with responses from
  • Lynn Williams
  • Staughton Lynd
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • Janice Fine
  • Joel Rogers

Hype or Help?

Globalization and the Fight over Labor Standards

  • Alice H. Amsden

Race, Class, and the Democrats

A top White House pollster has written an apology for Clinton’s presidency. He had lots of work to do.

  • Ronnie Dugger

Reinventing the Welfare State

Welfare reform is not just for policy wonks. It’s about the world of work and family we will pass on to the next generation.

  • Nancy Fraser
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • Lawrence Mead
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