How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
How highly unequal asset ownership diminishes social mobility and institutionalizes modern-era feudalism.
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Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
Read more...Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labour Market Returns to Child Behaviour
Gender-stereotype defying boys and girls appear to carry on that way as adults and pay a financial price.
Read more...The World’s Food Systems Are in Crisis, and Big Agribusiness Is at Its Heart
Public finance plays a large role in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local food producers
Read more...Remember That the Tories Are Only Getting Rid of Johnson To Make Things Worse
What happens to and after Johnson which is very much in play.
Read more...Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Studies of beasts that pass on wealth, um, resources and advantages to offspring may inform whether humans create stratified conditions.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
Read more...How ‘Queer Eye’ Upholds Liberal Economic Fantasies
The popular show focuses on America’s economic victims, offering help only elites enjoy while avoiding critiques of gross inequality.
Read more...Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
Read more...The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics
Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.
Read more...Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...Lawrence Wilkerson: Is Biden Risking War by Pushing Taiwan Independence?
Larry Wilkerson discusses whether Biden is provoking a military response from China that could go nuclear.
Read more...Our Ancestors Worked Less and Had Better Lives. What Are We Doing Wrong?
In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work
Read more...Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
Why it is a little too pat to blame the right for the sorry state of democratic processes in the US.
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