International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
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
Read more...Defining the Tax Reform Battleground
How tax “reform” policy discussions reinforced destructive economic ideas.
Read more...Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel
A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.
Read more...Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What Would Happen if Sanders Ran for President in 2020?
Speculating on Sanders 2020…
Read more...Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University
How parasitic administrators are ruining university education.
Read more...The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...Stop Talking Affordable Water and Start Talking Poverty
By David Zetland, who worked on water policy for 10+ years and is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Originally published at Aquanomics Circle of Blue published this long, aggravating article of the efforts of activists, water managers and (far too many consultants) to “find a compromise” on the […]
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