Drug price gouging is so widespread in the US that it seems unlikely that there will be enough outrage to limit coronavirus drug price gouging.
Read more...A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...The collapse of high-end freelance work isn’t just about the loss of incomes. If it persists long enough, it means the loss of capabilities.
Read more...A discussion of the state of capitailsm, with a European/Lebanase slant.
Read more...Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation and turning banks into utilities is the only sound response to the cornacrisis.
Read more...A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.
Read more...Our Enlightenment predecessors recognized not one but five economies – and the pandemic has reinvigorated our taste for them.
Read more...Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...America’s police started out as muscle deployed against labor organizers.
Read more...Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...How union support boosted black economic and social progress.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
Read more...Yves here. As various analyses have shown, in many places, governments implemented lockdowns after citizens had started restricting their activities to avoid contracting Covid-19. It’s useful to see economists address the question of what the cost of doing nothing or very little would have been. By Adam Brzezinski, DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics, University of […]
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