Dollars and Sense: Real World Economics

The current issue:
July/August 2021

From the Dollars & Sense blog:

Preparations for the “Next Afghanistan” Have Already Begun | August 22
How Inequality and Monopoly Amplify Racial Discrimination | July 19
July/August 2021 Issue | July 7
Fighting the Wealth Hoarders with Transparency and Taxes | June 10

Recent posts»

Try Higher Wages

BARRY DEUTSCH | September 6

A response to employers who say they've tried everything to find new workers. | Read more »
Social Infrastructure and the Care Crisis

YING CHEN, ZHONGJIN LI, AND YANG ZHAN | August 19

An Evaluation of China’s Covid-19 Experience | Read more »
Monopoly So Fragile

Cory Doctorow | July 30

Container ships that have gotten “too big to sail” illustrate one of the less-appreciated harms of monopoly. | Read more »
Boeing Hijacked
by Shareholders and Execs!

Marie Christine Duggan | July 7

What the downfall of Boeing tells us about our financialized economy. | Read more »
Are the Rich Countries Being Stupid
on Global Vaccines?

Arthur MacEwan | June 29

Dear Dr. Dollar: Moral issues aside, are the governments of rich countries being economically stupid by protecting pharmaceutical companies’ vaccine patents? | Read more »
Austerity as the Hammer of Neoliberalism

Jawied Nawabi | June 10

Review of Why Austerity Persists by Jon Shefner and Cory Blad (Polity, 2020) | Read more »
Behind the Virtuous Façade

Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher | May 24

The USMCA’s Rerstructuring of Mexico’s Labor Relations | Read more »
In the Drivers’ Seat

Luis Feliz Leon | May 13

Can a cooperative in New York City point the way for reining in Big Tech? | Read more »
India’s Farmers’ Protests

Sirisha Naidu | May 1

What’s behind one of the largest protests in history? | Read more »
Can the Decline of Unions Be Reversed?

Arthur MacEwan | April 27

Dear Dr. Dollar: Am I right to be pessimistic about significant reductions of inequality, at least through the impact of unions? | Read more »
Libor Rigging Redux

JOHN SUMMA | April 9

Was there a third dimension to the Libor scandal? | Read more »
Pandemic Mail

Christy Pottroff | March 27

Reimagining the role of the U.S. Postal Service during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic by looking to the past. | Read more »
Free to Lose

JOHN MILLER | March 16

Selling out workers and retirees to their financial advisors. | Read more »
Caring by the Dollar

Bill Barclay | March 4

Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 | Read more »
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat
at the Door to the Promised Land

Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt | February 28

The Economic History of the Great Migration and Its Aftermath | Read more »
Why Is Student Debt Cancelation a Big Deal?

Arthur MacEwan | February 18

Dear Dr. Dollar: I’ve noticed news reports about the possible cancellation of student debt. Why has this become such a big deal recently? | Read more »
Drugs and Global Capitalism

Sasha Breger Bush | January 17

The sheer size of the drug economy suggests its overwhelming centrality to the global economic system. | Read more »
The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis

John Miller | January 1

Wall Street demands your money and your life. | Read more »
State and Local Austerity

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok | December 19

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »
“Common Sense” Without Evidence Is Nonsense

JOHN MILLER | November 25

What are the actual effects of enhanced unemployment benefits? | Read more »

Special to the Web:

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 »

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 »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »

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.

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