Economy
In the Common Interest
How a grassroots movement of American farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy.
AI Can Still Be Redirected
Final response: It is not too late to put technology to work to create jobs and opportunities and to support individual freedom and democracy.
How the Pandemic Might Shape the Fight Against Automation
We must also address the interrelated challenges created by the pandemic.
The Punitive Potential of AI
The problems go beyond the abstractions of democracy and liberty. New workplace technologies cater to punitive practices.
Augmentation, Not Automation
When it comes to AI’s effect on the workforce, the real challenge is wages, not jobs.
The Means of Prediction
Discussions about “fairness” don’t go far enough. We need to think more deeply about who controls data and algorithms.
Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country
Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.
The Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism
Two books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade.
“Progress for People of Color Doesn’t Come at White Folks’ Expense”
A conversation with Heather C. McGhee about the zero-sum thinking that has long dominated American attitudes to race and wealth—and how to organize to secure public goods for everyone.
Amazon after Bessemer
Unions are just one element of a broader push to transform the company. Coalitions forged during the pandemic point the way forward—with a radical vision of worker and community control.
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
The failed efforts to prosecute businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine.
How Law Made Neoliberalism
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
Crises and Common Sense
The pandemic holds important political lessons for the climate crisis, but they must be taught.
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