Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
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.
Read more...For First Time In Years, Labor Resistance Is on the Rise in America
Is the rise in labor unrest in 2015 a harbinger or mere noise in the data?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Michelle Alexander, the Black Community & the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Michelle Alexander and some other black political and opinion leaders challenge knee-jerk loyalty to Hillary Clinton. Will these doubts spread?
Read more...Dean Baker Exposes How CBO Cooks Inflation Forecasts to Promote Deficit Scaremongering
Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.
Read more...Technology and the Future of Work
Discussions of technology-driven change fail to distinguish between productivity-enhancing technology and disruptive technology.
Read more...Bill Black: The AEI and Brookings Sell Marriage as the Solution for Poverty
Marriage is the new cheap fix for poverty…which means by implication that single low income women are a new category of the undeserving poor.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...Jim Hightower: What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint, Michigan
Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country’s political morals.
Read more...Paul Craig Roberts on Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host
An introduction to Michael Hudson and his latest book.
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