40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
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Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase
What Coase really said about oursourcing, and why that matters.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism
A bit of clarification regarding the word “neoliberalism,” now that it is finally being used in mainstream stories.
Read more...Freelancing Isn’t Feminist—It’s Badly Negotiated Wage Labor for $5 an Hour
Freelancers get exploited, and women freelancers even more so.
Read more...Ilargi: Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying?
None other than New Zealand’s prime minister has issued a blistering critique of capitalism. Can it be saved from itself?
Read more...Shocking the Shock Doctrine: What Recovery in Puerto Rico Could Look Like
How an anti-neoliberal recovery plan is starting to get traction in Puerto Rico.
Read more...Why Those Looking for the Next Crisis May be Looking in the Wrong Places
More and more experts are nattering nervously about market risk and occasionally using the “crisis” word. What are the potential hazards?
Read more...Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Forked Tongue on Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
It is an insult to intelligence for Steven Mnuchin to claim that the Trump tax plan isn’t a sop to the rich. That’s the GOP’s raison d’etre.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
Read more...Another Disease of Despair: Rise in Hepatitis C Among Opioid Users
A rise in hepatitis C, another public health crisis in the making, shows the high cost of neglecting job creation and social safety nets.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
Read more...How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
How shareholder value theory and other bad ideas created lousy incentives for corporations’ executives.
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
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