The Role of Social Security Wealth: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Germany and the US
Crunching some numbers on the value of social safety nets shows Americans are not as well off as pundits and pols would have you believe.
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Falling Through the Cracks: Insecure Work and the Social Safety Net
How the redefinition of work is not just imposing costs on laborers but society via factors like stress and poor training.
Read more...Immiseration Revisited: The Four Phases of Working Time
Immiseration theory, or why employers aren’t nicer to workers even though they become less productive the longer their workday.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 4
More on how neoliberal policies around the world have hurt labor.
Read more...Compassionate Capitalism in the Middle Ages: Profit and Philanthropy in Medieval Cambridge
More evidence that “capitalism” comes in more and less predatory forms.
Read more...Book Review: Game of Mates
A new book. Game of Mates, documents how rentier capitalism and soft corruption operate in Australia. Many of its findings apply to the US.
Read more...Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...Organizing Against the Gig Economy: Lessons from Latin America?
New strategies of organization and workers’ control in Latin America suggest ways to combat the insecurity of the gig economy.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Review of Steve Keen’s “Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?”
Steve Keen’s book is a compact, layperson friendly evisceration of mainstream economics and efforts to defend banks at the expense of citizens.
Read more...How Norway Shows the Limits of “Civilized Capitalism” and Social Organization
Debunking some well-meaning thinking on the “global village” and socially responsible investing.
Read more...The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part III: Argentina and the Right Winning Elections
How the Kirchner program in Argentina ran into the buzz saw of currency markets.
Read more...5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves
A trio of academics compare charter school tactics to Wall Street’s raiders.
Read more...They Go Together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government
Conventional wisdom about big government being a negative “freedom” isn’t borne out data.
Read more...Mark Ames: Credit Suisse Decries Russian Inequality After Playing Leading Role in Creating It
Credit Suisse criticizes Russian inequality after having profited handsomely from playing a big role in creating it.
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