November/December 2012 Table of Contents

“Free-Market” Outcomes Are Not Fair
—and Not Free

By Marty Wolfson

True or false?: “Since 1980, the U.S. government has reduced its intervention in the U.S. economy, which has become much more of a free market. Conservatives embrace this outcome, while progressives object to it.” Read more »
Highway Robbery

By Darwin BondGraham

How “public-private parternships” extract private profit from public infrastructure projects. Read more »
Structural Adjustment, Here and There

By Arthur MacEwan

Dear Dr. Dollar: What are the similarities and differences between structural adjustment in the rest of the world/Third World and structural adjustment in the United States? Read more »
The Big Lie About the “Entitlement State”

By Alejandro Reuss | November 16, 2012

Is New York Times columnist David Brooks right that growth in “entitlements”—government programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—“will bankrupt the country”? Read more »