Hoisted From Comments: American Education, Then and Now
A query to readers with children in or who have very recently graduated from public school: has education stagnated, as experts suggest, or is it getting worse?
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Gaius Publius: When Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen
It’s easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...Krugman Then and Now on Trade
Krugman shifts ground (yet again) as hostility to the negative effects of trade deals appears to be a big component of Sanders’ Michigan upset
Read more...Galbraith: Attack on Sanders’ Economic Plan By Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisors Irresponsible
Jamie Galbraith discusses in some detail why Gerald Friedman, a Clinton supporter who gave a favorable review of Sanders’ economic plan, is owed an apology by his detractors.
Read more...A Feisty Debate on Corporate Tax: Tax Justice Network vs. Tim Worstall
Tax avoidance by multinationals has put the issue of the implications of the low levels of tax paid by multinationals in the spotlight.
Read more...The Modi Government and India’s Economy
Why is India experiencing so much political upheaval when it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world?
Read more...Some Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Nearly Half a Million Jobs Lost in the US Alone
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lead to job losses overall, with the US taking the biggest hit.
Read more...Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...The Ogre & the Cog: A Tale of Modern Misallocation
The tale of the ogre and the cog endeavors to explain why modern capitalist machinery isn’t working the way it is supposed to. The open question is whether this is inevitable.
Read more...Introducing Kuznets Waves: How Income Inequality Waxes and Wanes Over the Very Long Run
Why income inequality is likely to remain high.
Read more...Robert Reich: Are We Witnessing the Death of America’s Political Establishment?
The elites in America are so cloistered that Robert Reich has to tell them why the natives are restless.
Read more...Delhi’s Wasteful “Smart City” for Its Elites: Bloomberg’s Parasitical Model for the Future?
Be warned: “Smart city” is the new code word for pampered, resource-hogging enclaves for the elite.
Read more...“Greed”: Announcing Econ4 Video Contest Winners
Please watch the winning entries in Econ4’s video contest on the topic of greed.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Age of Stagnation or Something Worse?
In The Age of Stagnation, author Satyajit Das has shifted from his usual wry detachment to a sense of foreboding.
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