How mainstream economics ignores the lessons from antiquity on the destructiveness of oligachies, and how early industrialists and business schools promoted anti-rentier, socialit policies.
Read more...In just under two years on the bench, Trump’s narrow-minded elitist judges have already harmed workers, consumers, voters, immigrants, reproductive rights, and many more.
Read more...A social order where the power of money plays an outsized role looks illegitiamate, particularly when citizens have been sold the myth of meritocracy.
Read more...At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...An important Wall Street Journal story digs into how Rick Singer created his college entrance cheating empire.
Read more...How the change in the nature of work has helped increase income inequality.
Read more...The world economy has experienced deglobasation phases before. How this one differs from its predecessors.
Read more...MMT advocate typically shy away from calling for progressive taxes. A case as to why that’s a lost opportunity.
Read more...A report from Colonel Smithers.
Read more...The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
Read more...2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
Read more...Bill Black analyzes Brad DeLong’s concession that neoliberals should get out of the way and let the left lead since their coalition with Republicans did not work.
Read more...US counties with convict labor often have lower wage and employment growth
Read more...Lyft’s prospectus doesn’t even pretend that the company might become profitable, let alone justify a $20-25 billion valuation.
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