How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation
Can changes in ownership rules tame the bad features of capitalism?
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Taxing Robots?
Contra Bill Gates, economists are not keen about taxing robots.
Read more...Bad Bank Proposal for India: A Partial Jubilee Financed by Zero Coupon Perpetual Bonds
A proposal for a partial jubilee as a way to clean up banks overburdened with bad loans.
Read more...Why It Will Take a Lot More Than a Smartphone to Get the Sharing Economy Started
A look a sharing versus “sharing economy” hucksterism.
Read more...Brexit: More on the UK’s Weak Hand
Yet more debunking of pro-Brexit fantasies.
Read more...NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America
Some likely scenarios for US negotiations over NAFTA, and what they would mean for the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Read more...Apprenticeship and the Rise of Europe
How the apprenticeship system developed and gave Europe an edge.
Read more...Keynesianism and the Great Recession
Why abandoning Keynesianism in favor of neoliberalism set up the financial crisis and led to inadequate post-crisis responses.
Read more...Working for Amazon: Better Than Sex, Worse Than Hell (Part 2)
Amazon warehouse workers describe the future of non-elite work in the 21st century.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Trump’s Tax Sleight of Hand
A skeptical look at some of Trump’s tax proposals.
Read more...Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold
Following the money behind the campaign against public education.
Read more...Working for Amazon: Better Than Sex, Worse Than Hell (Part 1)
Amazon warehouse workers describe the future of non-elite work in the 21st century.
Read more...NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America
Three scenarios for NAFTA under Trump and an overview of the policy implications for U.S. trading partners.
Read more...Neoliberalism Was Supposed to Make Us Richer: Three Reasons Why It Didn’t
How neoliberalism contributed to the productivity slowdown
Read more...Understanding the Long-Run Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades
Looking at some of the lasting damage done by the slave trade, such as higher incidence of HIV.
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