Bill Black: Trump Admin Halts Investigation of For-Profit Colleges
Bill Black discusses Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s decision to stop investigating for-profit colleges and educational institutions for fraudulent practices.
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The Populism Backlash: An Economically Driven Backlash
Quelle surprise! The rise of populism correlates strongly with increases in economic insecurity.
Read more...To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
A high-level discussion of the re-imaging of the word “capitalism”.
Read more...Yes, Neoliberalism Is a Thing. Don’t Let Economists Tell You Otherwise
Now that people have started to discover what neoliberalism is, denialism is the rage.
Read more...What Do the Jersey Elections Have to Do With Britain?
Not only is the isle of Jersey facing increasing scrutiny for its status as a notorious tax haven, especially from the UK, but populist desire for reform is surging from within as elections approach.
Read more...Political Precariat
A look at the broader economic and political implications of the rise of the precariat.
Read more...The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism
How two economists sought to reconcile Marx’s idea of common ownership with market mechanisms.
Read more...The U.S. Is Not at Full Employment—Don’t Believe the Trump Administration’s Hype to the Contrary
Why recent employment statistics are giving an unduly rosy picture of the state of the US labor market.
Read more...How Tax Evasion Increases Inequality
Total tax evasion among the top 0.01% in Scandinavia is roughly 10 times the level of the population at large.
Read more...Can Canada’s Mutual Help Financial Organizations for Disenfranchised Blacks Serve as a Model for the Un and Underbanked in the US?
Are Canada’s mutual-assistance-based financial groups a guide for how minority and disadvantaged groups can escape the tax of overpriced bank services like check cashing?
Read more...Globalisation, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How do voter reactions to globalisation vary by skill level?
Read more...200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding History
How Marx recognized the economic forces that give rise to and perpetuate ideologies that promote injustice.
Read more...What India Can Teach the US About a Federal Job Guarantee
As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
Read more...Corbyn’s Critics: Time to Come Round
After six shocks in three years, can Corbyn sceptics face the party’s new reality?
Read more...How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
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