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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,
  AND 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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  The Rocket Science of Sanitation

  Abhilasha Srivastava | June 8

  Understanding the plight of the Indian workers who are not considered workers. | Read more »

Special to the Web:

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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.