America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
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What Randomised Control Trials Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
Read more...Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities?
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...Brexit: Johnson’s General Election Busted Flush?
How the Tories are setting themselves up to lose the upcoming general election.
Read more...California Nursing Home Residents Told To Find New Homes
A nursing home case study in profiteering.
Read more...Phase One of Grenfell Tower Inquiry Released, Towers Not Up to Code, Suggestions for Firefighters
Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...Why the World Will Remember Departing ECB President as the Not-So-‘Super’ Mario Draghi
Looking back at the legacy of the man who created “the most deformed bond market in history.”
Read more...The Sanders Plan to Legalize Marijuana Does More Than Legalize Marijuana
Discussion of comprehensive Sanders plan to legalize marijuana: legal and political implications.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s Plan-itis: Excessive Lobbying Case Study
A hard look at a Warren plan reveals a lot not to like.
Read more...Automation: Robots in Real Life
The reality of robots is often mundane.
Read more...The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized
Turning to a classic policy debate: equality versus equity.
Read more...Chile in Flames: The Neoliberal Model in Crisis Throughout the Region
An overview of the protests in Chile.
Read more...How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
How Europe is creating the conditions in Africa that lead to migration….and the underlying stresses are set to get worse.
Read more...For Boomers Reframing Aging, Age-Proofing A Home Won’t Come Cheap
Americans want to stay at home as they age, but it doesn’t come cheap.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 2 of 4: The First Hammer-Blows
How the Roman Republic repeatedly rejected economic reforms and fell more and more to bloody insurrections by ambitious consuls and Senators.
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