January/February 2018

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

Is Economic Growth Compatible with
Ecological Sustainability?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Why do economists who claim to care about climate change keep talking about “growth, growth, growth”?Read more »
Trump and National Neoliberalism, Revisited

Sasha Breger-Bush

An assessment of the Trump presidency, one year in. Read more »

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Whatever Happened to Development?

Jawied Nawabi

Why have so few countries—out of about 120 newly independent countries that have emerged since World War II—achieved successful development? | Order this issue or subscribe.

Worst-Case Economics

An Interview with Frank Ackerman

Understanding the economics of extreme events in climate change and financial instability. | Order this issue or subscribe.

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editor’s note Ideas for Better Taxes
the short run
making sense Let’s Try Employer-Side Payroll Taxes
up against the Wall Street Journal State Millionaires’ Taxes Do Work
in review Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

January/February 2018

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars