Reclaiming the Commons Through State Ownership? Maybe Not
Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. Local, democratic and sustainable alternatives offer better protection.
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Hit by Epic Construction Downturn, Mexico Faces Reality: New President Tries to Get Folks to Play by the Rules, and Everything Stalls
A sharp fall in construction has helped push Mexico to the verge of recession. The construction industry blames AMLO’s anti-corruption push.
Read more...Robert O. Paxton’s “The Five Stages of Fascism”
Extracts from the work of Robert O. Paxton, with an assessment of the stage our political system has arrived at under the Trump administration.
Read more...Incentivizing an Ethical Economics
History shows that incentivizing the wealthy to contribute to the population’s basic needs makes everyone a winner.
Read more...Agroecology as Innovation
A UN report on agroecology finds that many farming methods pooh-poohed as traditional offer significant advantages over industrial farming.
Read more...The Big Blue Gap in the Green New Deal
Filling in the missing chapter on oceans for the Green New Deal,
Read more...Why Social Mobility Is a Lousy Idea
Recognizing social mobility as yet another “divide and conquer” strategy.
Read more...A Way Out from Rock Bottom: Economic Policies Can Reduce Deaths of Despair
Looking at how specific income-boosting policies reduce deaths.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...Takers and Makers: Who Are the Real Value Creators?
Why stories from “value creators” should be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Health Care Price Transparency: Fool’s Gold, or Real Money in Your Pocket?
A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
Read more...The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline
Quelle surprise! Occupational decline, aka “The robots ate my career,” lowers lifetime earnings, particulalry for low-wage workers.
Read more...Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
Some urban public schools, like the ones in St. Louis, are about to regain substantial local control after budget crises made them wards of the state (government). Will these cities be able to take advantage of this opportunity?
Read more...AI, Drones, Empathy, Alienation, and the Gig Economy
Why operating drones for the military and moderating content for Facebook are both really bad gigs.
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