Issue 319: July/August 2015

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Poverty Crime, Privileged Crime

Kristian Williams

While most analyses of Ferguson, Staten Island, and Baltimore have rightly put the spotlight on race, there is also an important economic dimension we should not forget. | Read more »
The Economics of Net Neutrality

Rob Larson | July 21

First in a series: MONEY YELLS!—Market Power and Corporate Control of Information.
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Do Locavores Have a Dilemma?

Anita Dancs and Helen Scharber

Economists who criticize the local food movement are depending on what we call the "CASTE" paradigm. | Read more »
The TPP: Corporate Power Unbound

John Miller | July 9

What economists have to say about the virtues of free trade, as flawed as that may be, has little to do with the TPP, which is not a trade agreement. | Read more »
From Boring Banking to Roaring Banking

An Interview with Gerald Epstein

How the financial sector grew out of control, and how we can change it. | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars

editors’ note Are You Pulling My Leg?
the short run
comment Policing and Economic Inequality
in review Nancy Altman and Eric R. Kingston, Social Security Works!
economy in numbers Latin America Under Neoliberalism

Not Much Change Yet

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Issue 319: July/August 2015

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars