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  Do People Care About Extreme Inequality?

  Arthur MacEwan | October 7

  Dear Dr. Dollar: Extreme inequality is having negative impacts throughout society. How long can this situation last? Will public opinion ever reflect my disapproval? | Read more »

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  Brazil’s Ten-Year Downward Spiral

  James M. Cypher
  and Guillermo Foladori | September 22

  How and why has Brazil fallen so far, so fast? | Read more »

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  The Limits of Ethical Consumerism

  Marc Triller | September 21

  Can we save the world, one bamboo spork at a time? | Read more »

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  Try Higher Wages

  BARRY DEUTSCH | September 6

  A response to employers who say they've tried everything to find new workers. | Read more »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  Boeing Hijacked
  by Shareholders and Execs!

  Marie Christine Duggan | July 7

  What the downfall of Boeing tells us about our financialized economy. | Read more »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  Behind the Virtuous Façade

  Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher | May 24

  The USMCA’s Rerstructuring of Mexico’s Labor Relations | Read more »

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  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 »

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  India’s Farmers’ Protests

  Sirisha Naidu | May 1

  What’s behind one of the largest protests in history? | Read more »

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  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 »

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  Libor Rigging Redux

  JOHN SUMMA | April 9

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

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  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 »

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  Free to Lose

  JOHN MILLER | March 16

  Selling out workers and retirees to their financial advisors. | Read more »

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  Caring by the Dollar

  Bill Barclay | March 4

  Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 | Read more »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis

  John Miller | January 1

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

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  State and Local Austerity

  Amanda Page-Hoongrajok | December 19

  Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »

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  “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:

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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.