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Economy

Race

Against Black Homeownership

The real estate market is so structured by race that black families will never come out ahead.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Long History of Debt Cancellation

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.

Olivia Schwob

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

How Not to Argue for Tax Justice

Economists are taking aim at the unfairness of the U.S. tax system. But a just society won’t be won by arguing about taxes alone.

Liam Murphy

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Bad Romance

Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world, a new book argues. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation—and only the most utopian politics will break its spell.

James G. Chappel

Politics, Science & Nature

What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong

A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.

Adam Gaffney

Science & Nature

Global Warming, Market Opportunity

On the lure of climate entrepreneurism.

Troy Vettese

Forum

The American Corporation is in Crisis—Let's Rethink It

For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well. Now, as that foundation crumbles, thirteen thinkers debate new reforms that could transform the inequalities at the heart of our economy.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.

Kevin P. Donovan, Emma Park

Philosophy & Religion

The Gospel of Oil

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic, a new history shows.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Class & Inequality

Everyday Economists

The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?

Samuel Bowles, Joshua Cohen

Print Issues

From the Editors: Economics After Neoliberalism

We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.

Joshua Cohen

Reading Lists

The World’s Top 50 Thinkers

Twenty percent of them are Boston Review contributors! 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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