July/August 2021

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 Limits of Ethical Consumerism

Marc Triller

Can we save the world, one bamboo spork at a time? | Read more »
Social Infrastructure and the Care Crisis

Ying Chen, Zhongjin Li,and Yang Zhan

An Evaluation of China’s Covid-19 Experience | Read more »
Monopoly So Fragile

Cory Doctorow

Container ships that have gotten “too big to sail” illustrate one of the less-appreciated harms of monopoly. | Read more »
Boeing Hijacked by Shareholders and Execs!

Marie Christine Duggan

What the downfall of Boeing tells us about our financialized economy. | Read more »
Are the Rich Countries Being Stupid on Global Vaccines?

Arthur MacEwan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Moral issues aside, are the governments of rich countries being economically stupid by protecting pharmaceutical companies’ vaccine patents? | Read more »

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the regulars

editors’ note Dangerous Monopoly
the short run
cartoon
Making Sense Destroying the Illusions of the Restaurant Industry
up against the wall street journal Taxing Corporations Is Infrastructure
in review Teatro Anónimo, Espíritu

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

July/August 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars