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Coronavirus, Capitalism,
and the Workers’ Movement
Alejandro Reuss | September 7
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »
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Pass the Salt!
Chris Nealon | September 6
A reprise of our 2012 review of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber, who died on September 2. | Read more »
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Unemployment Insurance:
A “Safety Net” With Holes
Alejandro Reuss | August 26
The enhanced unemployment benefits—like much of the U.S. social “safety net”—did not cover everyone. | Read more »
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Out of Policy Ideas? Cut Capital Gains Taxes!
JOHN MILLER | August 8
Economists react to the Covid-19 economy with a familiar cure-all. | Read more »
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Corporate Funding of Police Foundations
Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman | July 21
The lavish overfunding of the police goes beyond public money. | Read more »
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Essential—and Expendable—Mexican Labor
Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher | July 10
On both sides of the border, Mexican workers are now essential—to U.S. corporations. | Read more »
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Local, or Far Away?
Arthur MacEwan | July 5
Economists tend to assume that the sole goal of our economic activity is to get things as cheaply possible. But outside the narrow world of economics, people care about a lot of other things. | Read more »
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How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis
Alejandro Reuss | June 25
Part 2 of a joint series in Labor Notes and D&S: “Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”
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Police Violence Is Enabled by
‘Liberal’ Politicians’ Massive Spending
Sonali Kolhatkar | June 18
George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. | Read more »
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If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs,There Is Another Solution
Marshall Auerback | June 18
The refusal of the federal government to contemplate per capita revenue distributions means that more radical measures need to be considered by the state governments. | Read more »
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Growth, Growth, Growth: What Will Happen?
Arthur MacEwan | June 11
The issues of fossil fuel-based growth, economic inequality, and firms’ externalization of pollutants will remain important issues after the COVID-19 crisis starts to fade from our daily lives. | Read more »
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App Workers in the Gig Economy
Nicole Aschoff | June 4
App jobs are a testing ground for companies to see how much they can force workers, consumers, and governments to take on the costs of production. | Read more »
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Guaranteed Unemployment
or Guaranteed Employment?
Pavlina Tcherneva | May 14
The avalanche of job losses today and mass unemployment tomorrow are of our own making. But there is another option. | Read more »
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The Most Important Economic Lesson
from the COVID-19 Crisis
Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray | May 4
It’s time to ditch “pay-for” politics. | Read more »
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Not Just a “Natural Disaster”
Alejandro Reuss | April 25
Part 1 of a new joint series in Labor Notes and D&S: “Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”
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Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism
Jayati Ghosh | April 14
A contribution to our series on the history of neoliberalism, updated by the author in light of the current crisis. | Read more »
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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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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 »
