March/April 2020

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

The Fed and the Coronavirus Crisis

Gerald Epstein

We must not keep underwriting the bloated and unproductive global financial system—helping it to lurch, prosper, and crash, from crisis to crisis. | Read more »
Coronavirus: A Capitalist Crisis

Richard D. Wolff

The catastrophe demonstrates the results when public health is subordinate to private profit and to a governmental apparatus that adulates the superiority of private over public administration. | Read more »
Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

A Proposal for the Government to Act as Buyer of Last Resort | Read more »
Do Sweat the Big Stuff

Zoe Sherman

Review of the Huntington Theater's production of Sweat. | Read more »

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The Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil

Débora Nunes

Why hydroelectric-generated energy is not at all clean.

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editor’s note The Coronavirus Economy
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cartoon Private Equity Vampires
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ask dr. dollar Is a Rapid Green-Energy Switch Prohibitively Costly?

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

March/April 2020

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