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  Inequality, Sunk Costs, and Climate Justice

  FRANK ACKERMAN | April 22

  With climate change, we are all on the same boat, in perilous waters—but some of us have much nicer cabins than others. | Read more »

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  Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation?

  By Arthur MacEwan | March 30

  Dear Dr. Dollar: I regularly hear the claim that U.S. prosperity *depends* on exploiting poorer countries, but I have never once seen an actual argument for it. What is the support for this claim? | Read more »

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  Can We Afford a Stable Climate?

  FRANK ACKERMAN | March 12

  Worst-Case Risks vs. Least-Cost Solutions | Read more »

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  The Economics of Residential Rent Control

  STEPHEN BARTON | March 1

  A Not-So-Simple Matter of Supply and Demand | Read more »

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  A Green Job Guarantee

  JOHN MILLER | February 16

  A federal job guarantee would alter the balance of power in the labor market in favor of workers. | Read more »

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  Neoliberalism Unchained

  BY JAMES M. CYPHER | January 31

  Jair Bolsonaro and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Brazil | Read more »

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  Is “Short Selling” Bad for the Economy?

  By Arthur MacEwan | January 13

  Dear Dr. Dollar: How do short-sellers manage to make a profit? Does the practice threaten the health of the larger economy or is it relatively harmless? | Read more »

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  Hope for Housing
  in California’s Equitable Economy

  JANE PAUL | December 17

  Third in a Series: An Equitable Economy Rises in Los Angeles | Read more »

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  Reindustrialization in the Granite State

  MARIE DUGGAN | December 9

  Part 3 of the Series “Deindustrialization in the Granite State”: Diamond Turning in the Age of Impatient Finance | Read more »

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  Trying Again for Full Employment

  GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG | November 16

  As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment? | 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.