Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
Debunking some pet conservative myths about the opiate crisis.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
How Amazon’s predatory non-profit model is a particularly potent form of rent extraction.
Read more...Labour Scarcity and Labour Coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
Institutions are widely viewed as a fundamental cause of economic performance. But what are the causes of institutions?
Read more...Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of High Inequality
Who’d have thunk it? Cheap servants mean high income career women have more kids.
Read more...Reclaiming the Tax: Foregrounding the Public Covenant
Rethinking the MMT rhetoric around tax….and implications for policy prescriptions.
Read more...International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
Read more...More Power to the Workers: Seymour Melman on Extraction by the Military, Managers, and Finance
Why workers are the nexus of production and prosperity.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Congressional Review Act, Supportive Constituencies (and Injunctions)
The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
Read more...Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable
Why increases in inequality lead to increases in the rate of homicide.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Obama Chose Wall Street Over Main Street
The Democratic Party must acknowledge that the 2008 crash created conditions for much more progressive policies – but Obama did not step up.
Read more...J. D. Alt: The New Poverty
“Community subsistence” as a way to address poverty on a broad-scale basis.
Read more...What Sounds Better To You – Guaranteed Basic Income Or Federal Job Guarantee?
Even though a basic income sounds appealing, a job guarantee will do more to restructure power relations in society.
Read more...One-Third of Puerto Rico Won’t Have Christmas Tree Lights Because They Still Don’t Have Power
Lack of power in Puerto Rico, with ripple effects on the water supply, air pollution, and hospitals
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