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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 »

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  Why Is the Economy Doing So Well?

  Arthur MacEwan | May 30

  First we should ask: Has the U.S. economy really been doing so well? | Read more »

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  Traditional Measures of Unemployment
  Are Missing the Mark

  BY MARK PAUL | May 9

  Puzzling through why, despite low unemployment, significant wage increases remain elusive. | Read more »

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  May Day: The Workers’ Day!

  BY GERALD FRIEDMAN | May 1

  Our columnist Jerry Friedman on the history of International Workers' Day | Read more »

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  Inequality, Sunk Costs, and Climate Justice

  BY FRANK ACKERMAN | April 22

  With climate change, we are all on the same boat, in perilous waters—but some of us have much nicer cabins than others. | Read more »

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  Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation?

  By Arthur MacEwan | March 30

  Dear Dr. Dollar: I regularly hear the claim that U.S. prosperity *depends* on exploiting poorer countries, but I have never once seen an actual argument for it. What is the support for this claim? | Read more »

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  Can We Afford a Stable Climate?

  FRANK ACKERMAN | March 12

  Worst-Case Risks vs. Least-Cost Solutions | Read more »

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  The Economics of Residential Rent Control

  STEPHEN BARTON | March 1

  A Not-So-Simple Matter of Supply and Demand | 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.