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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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Resuscitating Private Social Security Accounts
JOHN MILLER | September 27
Countering Inequality with Panic and Prevarication | Read more »
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Why the Climate Crisis Is Also
the Crisis of Capitalism
YING CHEN AND GÜNEY IŞIKARA | September 9
The people in charge of our economic surplus—capitalists—seem unwilling to deploy that surplus for social purposes like a Green New Deal. | Read more »
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U.S. Agriculture Needs a 21st-Century New Deal
MAYWA MONTENEGRO, JOSHUA SBICCA,
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ANNIE SHATTUCK | August 26
A just transition requires a system-wide shift that cuts carbon emissions, reduces vulnerability to climate chaos, and prioritizes economic justice | Read more »
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Dangerous Talk on
Education and Economic Mobility
JOHN MILLER | August 14
Beyond the College Admissions Bribery Scandal. | Read more »
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With Foreign Trade, Are Progressives and Trump on the Same Page?
Arthur MacEwan | July 31
Dear Dr. Dollar: Given Trump's positions on issues like tariffs and trade agreements, are Trump and progressives on the same page on foreign trade? | Read more »
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Amazon’s New Jungle
STEVEN PRESSMAN | July 21
A review of Hired by James Bloodworth and Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler. | Read more »
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The Optimal Tax
JOHN MILLER | June 25
Mainstream economics supports a 70% top income tax rate (or higher). | 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.
