Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
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Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta
How the Charter of the Forest set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.
Read more...Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
The latest chapter in the efforts to treat activists as criminals.
Read more...Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics
A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
Read more...Corruption Uncertainty and Corporate Practices
evidence suggests that while foreign-controlled firms are unaffected by the corruption uncertainty factor, domestic firms decrease investments significantly when uncertainty about corruption practices increases.
Read more...Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase
What Coase really said about oursourcing, and why that matters.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism
A bit of clarification regarding the word “neoliberalism,” now that it is finally being used in mainstream stories.
Read more...Freelancing Isn’t Feminist—It’s Badly Negotiated Wage Labor for $5 an Hour
Freelancers get exploited, and women freelancers even more so.
Read more...EU Borders: Walking Backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The UK still has no realistic answer to the problem that the Northern Ireland border poses to Brexit.
Read more...Ilargi: Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying?
None other than New Zealand’s prime minister has issued a blistering critique of capitalism. Can it be saved from itself?
Read more...Impossible to Compete with Unintentional Self-Parody: Trump and Opioids
On the corporate/regulatory nexus of the opioid crisis.
Read more...Shocking the Shock Doctrine: What Recovery in Puerto Rico Could Look Like
How an anti-neoliberal recovery plan is starting to get traction in Puerto Rico.
Read more...Why Those Looking for the Next Crisis May be Looking in the Wrong Places
More and more experts are nattering nervously about market risk and occasionally using the “crisis” word. What are the potential hazards?
Read more...Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Forked Tongue on Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
It is an insult to intelligence for Steven Mnuchin to claim that the Trump tax plan isn’t a sop to the rich. That’s the GOP’s raison d’etre.
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