Issue 305: March/April 2013

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  P3 Push in El Salvador

  By Hilary Goodfriend

  In the face of aggressive U.S. pressure to pass a privatization law, Salvadoran workers seek international solidarity. Read more »

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  Whose Housing Recovery?

  By Darwin Bondgraham

  Big-money investors snap up tens of thousands of foreclosed homes for rental income and speculation. Read more »

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  What Runaway Spending?

  By Gerald Friedman

  Federal spending as a share of GDP has declined sharply. The real cause of the deficit is declining revenue due to tax cuts and recession. Read more »

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  Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering

  By Ellen Frank

  From the fiscal cliff to the sequester to the debt-ceiling, conservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare. Read more »

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  Thought and Devotion

  By Richard Wolff

  Steve Resnick directed his twin passions of economic theory and econometrics toward the goals of social change and mastery of Marxian economics. Read more »

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Brazil’s “Big Push”

By James M. Cypher

With a leading government role in industrialization, the country’s “neo-developmentalism” breaks from neoliberalism. | Order this issue or subscribe.