Priceless Moments: How Capitalism Eats Our Time
Market economy to you: “All your time are belong to us”
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
Read more...Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Larry Summers and Anna Stansbury challenge the idea that workers getting a smaller cut of the productivity gains pie is due to technology.
Read more...Law Professor Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude is the new idea for how to get immigrants to come to American at less than minimum wage pay.
Read more...Growth-Equity Trade-Offs in Structural Reforms
There is a fear that certain reforms could further exacerbate inequality….
Read more...The Free Market Threat to Democracy
Democracy is not under stress – it’s under aggressive attack, as unconstrained financial greed overrides public accountability.
Read more...Monopoly Now Wants You to Cheat—Just Like Real Capitalists
Bad monopoly behavior, both in the classic game and in real life, are ever more in vogue. But a backlash has begun.
Read more...Economies of States Versus Economies of Cities
Why are some cities doing better than the states they inhabit?
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
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