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What’s Behind the Teachers’ Strike
ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN | May 19
The Labor-Movement Dynamic of Teacher Insurgencies Read more »
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How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike
Its Radical Politics
DAVID BACON | May 1
Honoring Larry Itliong and a generation of radicals whose political ideas are as relevant to workers now as they were in 1965. Read more »
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Modern Money
ROBERT HOCKETT | April 12
A Legal, Functional, and Historical Primer
on Modern Monetary Theory Read more »
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Rising Asset Bubbles Distort the Industrial Base
MARIE CHRISTINE DUGGAN | March 29
Part 2 of a Series on Deindustrialization in Keene, N.H. Read more »
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12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor
NOAH BERLATSKY | March 20
If the essence of neoliberalism is an ideological faith in the righteous virtue of individual choice, then self-help books are the true heirs of Milton Friedman. Read more »
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Growing Together, Flying Apart
GERALD FRIEDMAN | March 14
Regional Disparities in American Politics and Economics Read more »
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Is Economic Growth Compatible with
Ecological Sustainability?
ARTHUR MACEWAN | February 16
Dear Dr. Dollar: Why do economists who claim to care about climate change keep talking about “growth, growth, growth”?Read more »
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Trump and National Neoliberalism, Revisited
SASHA BREGER-BUSH | January 28
An assessment of the Trump presidency, one year in. Read more »
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The GOP/Trump Tax Act
By John Miller | January 22
The new tax act showers benefits on the best-off taxpayers. For the rest of us, it offers only meager tax reductions written in disappearing ink. Read more »
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Transnational Capital and Transnational Labor
An Interview with William K. Tabb | January 11
Understanding the restructuring of the capitalist world economy in the neoliberal era and since the global economic crisis. Read more »
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Deindustrialization in the Granite State
Marie Duggan | December 28
Monetary policy, financialization, and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs. Read more »
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What Is U.S. Workers’ Income Share?
ARTHUR MACEWAN | December 8
Dear Dr. Dollar: How well do U.S workers fare in relation to workers in other countries when you compare workers’ shares of national income? Read more »
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Fake Tax News
John Miller | November 15
Wall Street Journal editors claim that Trump’s tax cut framework will boost economic growth and lift wages. Read more »
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Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2016
DOLLARS & SENSE | December 30, 2016
From Sanders’ proposals to global private equity to stock buybacks, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2016. 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 »
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How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)
Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland | August 9, 2013
During the city’s heyday from the 1890s through the 1940s, mayors and other civic leaders embraced the principles espoused by American economist Henry George, raising revenue through property taxes, rather than income or sales taxes. Read more »
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Banking on the Public
Abby Scher | June 25, 2013
Going Postal, North Dakota, and other finance alternatives: A report-back from Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy. Read more »
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Taxing Cash Hoarders
Alejandro Reuss | June 28, 2013
Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash. A tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to invest it now. Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
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Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
