Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
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...It Is Time To Start Forgiving Student Loans – And Here Is What It Will Cost
A far-ranging plan for cleaning up the student loan mess.
Read more...Martin Wolf v. Trumponomics Whiffs Due to Fealty to Orthodoxy
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf has a go at Donald Trump, but manages to score an own goal as far as his profession is concerned.
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...How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy
With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have gotten serious about organizing.
Read more...A Look at the Poor People’s Campaign: Theology and Ideology
“The poor you will always have with you.” Really?
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...“Convenience” for Whom?
Lambert goes to the convenience store and buys coffee.
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.
Read more...Trade Wars in the Global Value Chain Era
Why trade wars are more costly than conventional wisdom would have you believe now that manufacturing to a large degree depends on global value chains.
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