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Tag: Economy

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

Karen Levy

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.

Anthony Morgan, Kate Soper, Lynne Segal

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

Lenore Palladino

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.

Rajan Menon

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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.

Kate Soper

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

Martijn Konings

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

Matthew Cole

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

Jonathan Kirshner

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

Breanne Fahs

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

Matthew Crain

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

Jamie Martin

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

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

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

Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

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

Sandeep Vaheesan
How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.
Simon Torracinta

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

Emily Callaci
Why we should err on the side of inaction—and why we won’t.
Jonathan Kirshner
Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.
Brian Callaci

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

Madeline Lane-McKinley

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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.

Dan Breznitz

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

Jayati Ghosh, C. P. Chandrasekhar

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