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Economy

Class & Inequality, War & Security

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq.

Duncan Kennedy

Class & Inequality, Politics

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

How we can ensure economic security for all Americans.

J. Larry Brown, Larry W. Beeferman

Class & Inequality, Politics

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

Erik Olin Wright, Rachel Dwyer

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Business and Democracy

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

J. W. Mason

Forum

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

Forum

Social Justice is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi

Class & Inequality, Politics

Real Tax Reform

Where tax could be headed if we put aside the crudest forms of partisan politics and used some basic common sense.

Edward J. McCaffery

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

The Car As Hero

Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

Neil Shister

Forum

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

Jeff Gates

Class & Inequality, Politics

Development—but at What Cost?

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

Shiv Visvanathan, Jay Mandle

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Problem with Thinking Locally

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

Jay Mandle

Class & Inequality

Hype or Help?

Globalization and the Fight over Labor Standards

Alice H. Amsden

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