July/August 2013

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  Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?

  By Arthur MacEwan

  Dear Dr. Dollar: We know U.S. income inequality has increased. But what’s happened with Black-White inequality? Read more »

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  Pursuing Profits—or Power?

  By James K. Boyce | August 21

  Do corporations seek to maximize profits? Or do they seek to maximize power? Read more »

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  Frackonomics

  By Rob Larson

  Hydrofracking turns out to be an ideal vehicle for explaining key economic concepts of market failure and market power. Read more »

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  Collapsing Investment
  and the Great Recession

  By Gerald Friedman | July 25

  Investment in structures and machinery is one of the ways that an economy grows over time. But it’s not happening in the current “recovery.” Read more »

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  Beyond Debt and Deficits

  An Interview with Robert Pollin

  One of the authors of the paper that took down Reinhart and Rogoff talks to us about debt, austerity, growth, and why we need a wage-led recovery. Read more »

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