A More Equitable Economy Exists Right Next Door
Meet Quebec’s social economy.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Alice in Gender-Gap Land
The gender pay gap persists, even in supposedly female-friendly fields like the arts, when women have similar credentials and experience.
Read more...Who Benefits From the Mayo Clinic Explicitly Putting Commercially Insured Patients Ahead of Some Government Insured Patients?
The Mayo Clinic takes a big step backwards in patient care.
Read more...The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
Read more...Some Easy Straw Men: Zack Beauchamp, Sanders, Economics, and Identity Politics
What Zack Beauchamp gets wrong about Bernie Sanders and “populism”
Read more...Diversity and Public Goods: The More We Mix, the Better
Making diversity work is a challenge, but it can be done.
Read more...How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation
Can changes in ownership rules tame the bad features of capitalism?
Read more...Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn From Speedboat Races in Japan
How much credence should we give to studies on sex-related performance differences?
Read more...Persuasion: An Introduction
Understanding the drivers of persuasion and other influence techniques.
Read more...Why a 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism is not compatible with human civilization and is finally reaching its breaking point.
Read more...Why It Will Take a Lot More Than a Smartphone to Get the Sharing Economy Started
A look a sharing versus “sharing economy” hucksterism.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Retirement? What Social Obligation?
How neoliberals have rewritten the social contract around retirement.
Read more...European Identity and the Economic Crisis
The rise of right and left wing nationalists in Europe has led to soul searching about what it means to be European.
Read more...An Economy of Meaning – or Bust
Can one really create “an economy of meaning”?
Read more...Wearing White: What Resistance Looks Like in America’s Heartland
A labor struggle in South Bend as a window into unions’ ongoing resistance to corporate greed.
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