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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.
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Austerity is not the only way to save our overextended planet. A simpler life might be both more pleasurable and more equal.
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.
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To generate local, inclusive prosperity, cities must think beyond tech accelerators and science parks and instead embrace a wider range of innovation strategies.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
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