Elizabeth Warren’s Plan-itis: Excessive Lobbying Case Study
A hard look at a Warren plan reveals a lot not to like.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
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.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 1 of 4: Structure and Background
Drawing lessons from three books on the Roman Republic.
Read more...Four Companies Settle Just Before Bellwether Opioids Trial Was to Begin Today in Ohio
Last minute settlement halts first federal opioids trial, due to begin today in Ohio; this would have been the opening courtroom clash in the complex MDL.
Read more...UAW and GM Reach a Deal, But Will Autoworkers Support It?
Two former autoworkers leaders examine how the militancy of rank and file union membership carried the current GM strike, how it could transform unions, and how this speaks to the larger struggle with capitalism.
Read more...Impoverished Economics? Unpacking the Economics Nobel Prize
Yves here. Even thought the mainstream media, as usual, duly applauded the winners of this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, there’s been less attention paid to the recipients than usual and far more criticism, some very measured, others more critical. The winners helped develop and promote an approach to development economics they called “randomized control […]
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?
Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
Read more...Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout
How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet
A brief reminder of the IMF record of failure and harm.
Read more...Thomas Piketty’s New Book: Impressive Research, Problematic Solutions
Capital and Ideology is a quantitative history of inequality, a largely noneconomic theory of social stratification, an investigation into the social roots of current populism, and a political manifesto for the European left.
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