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September/October 2019

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From the Dollars & Sense blog:

Please Support the Striking Battery Wharf Hotel Workers | November 15
New Issue!/Save the Date! | October 8
Local Responsibility for a Global Problem: Juliana v. the U.S. | September 20
In Memoriam, Frank Ackerman | September 17

Recent posts»

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 »
A Primer on Debt

BRUCE PARRY | October 29

What should concern us about historically high levels of debt. | Read more »
Why Economics?

FRANK ACKERMAN | October 7

D&S Co-Founder Frank Ackerman reflects on his lifetime in economics. | Read more »
Resuscitating Private Social Security Accounts

JOHN MILLER | September 27

Countering Inequality with Panic and Prevarication | Read more »
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 »
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 »
Dangerous Talk on
Education and Economic Mobility

JOHN MILLER | August 14

Beyond the College Admissions Bribery Scandal. | Read more »
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 »
Amazon’s New Jungle

STEVEN PRESSMAN | July 21

A review of Hired by James Bloodworth and Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler. | Read more »
The Optimal Tax

JOHN MILLER | June 25

Mainstream economics supports a 70% top income tax rate (or higher). | Read more »
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:

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 »

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 »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »

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.

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