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The Fed and the Coronavirus Crisis
Gerald Epstein | April 3
We must not keep underwriting the bloated and unproductive global financial system—helping it to lurch, prosper, and crash, from crisis to crisis. | Read more »
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The Coronavirus Consensus:
“Spend, Spend, Spend”
Gerald Epstein | March 27
The apparent consensus among macroeconomists is a step in the right direction. But it leaves open what the money should be spent on, through what institutions it should be delivered, and in the service of whom. | Read more »
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Coronavirus: A Capitalist Crisis
Richard D. Wolff | March 22
The catastrophe demonstrates the results when public health is subordinate to private profit and to a governmental apparatus that adulates the superiority of private over public administration. | Read more »
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Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman | March 15
A Proposal for the Government to Act as Buyer of Last Resort | Read more »
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Do Sweat the Big Stuff
Zoe Sherman | February 19
Review of the Huntington Theater's production of Sweat. | Read more »
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Rebooting Big Tech
Rob Larson | February 14
What’s the best way to fix Silicon Valley? | Read more »
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The Wealth Tax Proposals
JOHN MILLER | February 3
How not to make friends among the tax establishment and the superrich. | Read more »
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Monopoly Everywhere
Armağan Gezici | January 20
Extreme market concentration goes beyond Big Tech. | Read more »
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Are Taxes the Best Way
of Dealing with Inequality?
Arthur MacEwan | December 28
Dear Dr. Dollar: Are taxes on the rich, on their income and their wealth, the best option for reducing extreme inequality? | Read more »
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Neoliberalism and Climate Change
Robert Pollin | December 10
The Green New Deal as
an anti-neoliberalism program. | Read more »
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Social Crises, Crises of Democracy, Neoliberalism in Crisis
Romaric Godin | November 28
The economic basis of the recent protests around the world. | Read more »
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NAFTA and the USMCA
James M. Cypher and Mateo Crossa | November 16
By a reader’s request, we present a pdf pamphlet combining two articles on the trade agreements. | Read more »
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A Primer on Debt
BRUCE PARRY | October 29
What should concern us about historically high levels of debt. | Read more »
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Why Economics?
FRANK ACKERMAN | October 7
D&S Co-Founder Frank Ackerman
reflects on his lifetime in economics. | Read more »
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Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2018
DOLLARS & SENSE | December 31
From deindustrialization to guard labor to the tepid global recovery, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2018. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »
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Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016
On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »
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Debt and Development
Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015
If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »
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Thirty Years of Farm Aid
CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015
Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »
Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.
