Class & Inequality

Re-imagining Stakeholder Governance

Corporate governance is multifaceted and can’t be changed with a silver-bullet.

  • Katharina Pistor

Shareholders Versus Stakeholders

Lumping workers in with other stakeholders obscures reality.

  • Isabelle Ferreras

A Newer Deal

Is inequality in share ownership a problem that needs to be solved?

  • Michael Lind

The Racist Lie of “Takers and Makers”

This is an important opportunity for people of color.

  • Lauren Jacobs

Navigating Complexity

Shareholder primacy will be the default unless serious policy action is taken.

  • Julius Krein

The Claims of the Community

Modern corporations should serve communities too.

  • William Lazonick

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Elitism Can’t Be Democratized

Admissions scandals are a symptom that what passes for egalitarian struggle now amounts to desperate individual attempts to ascend a steepening social hierarchy.

  • Richard Thompson Ford

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

Games Economists Play

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum’s new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

Homes for Citizens

New York public housing is plagued with problems, but it possesses a democratic advantage that voucher systems lack: residents can hold the state accountable not only as tenants but as constituents.

  • Salonee Bhaman
  • Pedro A. Regalado

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

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

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Final response: what we talk about when we talk about the working class.

  • Elizabeth Catte

Selling Progress in Appalachia

The left cannot ignore strong conservatism on social issues.

  • Ruy Teixeira

Radical and Queer in Rural America

The countryside is often derided as a place where change comes slowly or not at all, but queer utopianism has evolved rapidly.

  • Hugh Ryan

The Radical History of Appalachian Women Activists

Appalachian women fought for labor and health rights.

  • Jessica Wilkerson

Don’t Blame Capitalism

Obama reorganized our markets to push wealth upward.

  • Matt Stoller

Left Behind

Rural America no longer has “plundering bosses.”

  • Elaine Kamarck

Legacies of Resistance

The work is happening—people just have to support it.

  • Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

The Last Steep Ascent

Genuine change-makers are rising down South.

  • Bob Moser

Why Institutions Drive Change

U.S. leftists have a particular weakness for romanticizing our past.

  • Michael Kazin

Class Matters

We need more honesty about how class shapes the lives of everyone.

  • Nancy Isenberg

Overdosing in Appalachia

Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis.

  • Lesly-Marie Buer

New Rules, New Politics

How a revolution in economics has led to a new kind of politics.

  • Felicia Wong
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