The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
Discusses twin diseases stymieing US middle-class– secular stagnation and the polarization of jobs and incomes– and potential policy cures.
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Notes From an Emergency: Tech Feudalism
A wide-ranging, lively, sobering talk about tech feudalism and the implications for all of us.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: More Job Guarantee Muddle
Why there is a lot not to like in the Center for American Progress’ job guarantee proposal.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...New Jersey’s Flooding Crisis Hits Low-Income People Hardest
New Jersey’s flooding problems as a microcosm of what is to come.
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
Read more...How Financialization and the “New Economy” Hurt Science and Engineering Grads
How the “new economy” devalued science and engineering degrees.
Read more...Falling Through the Cracks: Insecure Work and the Social Safety Net
How the redefinition of work is not just imposing costs on laborers but society via factors like stress and poor training.
Read more...Immiseration Revisited: The Four Phases of Working Time
Immiseration theory, or why employers aren’t nicer to workers even though they become less productive the longer their workday.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 4
More on how neoliberal policies around the world have hurt labor.
Read more...Book Review: Game of Mates
A new book. Game of Mates, documents how rentier capitalism and soft corruption operate in Australia. Many of its findings apply to the US.
Read more...Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
Read more...Understanding Household Financial Distress: The Role of Noncognitive Abilities
A critical thinking exercise on a study that claims that psychological traits are linked to financial distress.
Read more...Organizing Against the Gig Economy: Lessons from Latin America?
New strategies of organization and workers’ control in Latin America suggest ways to combat the insecurity of the gig economy.
Read more...The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part III: Argentina and the Right Winning Elections
How the Kirchner program in Argentina ran into the buzz saw of currency markets.
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