Dollars and Sense: Real World Economics

The current issue:
November/December 2021

From the Dollars & Sense blog:

November/December 2021 Issue | November 13
Video of 10/26 Panel Discussion of “My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics”" | November 4
September/October 2021 Issue | September 22
Review of "These Walls Between Us" | October 16
September/October 2021 Issue | September 22
Preparations for the “Next Afghanistan” Have Already Begun | August 22

Recent posts»

Climate Change, Social Justice,
and the Green New Deal

Arthur MacEwan | December 4

Dear Dr. Dollar: Doesn’t combating climate change need to be given top priority regardless of the impact on social justice? | Read more »
The Group Home Racket

John Summers | November 22

How a financial model masquerades as a human service. | Read more »
Why Record Numbers of Workers
Are Quitting and Striking

Sonali Kolhatkar | November 11

A viral video of a young woman quitting over a Walmart PA system is a symbol of the “Great Resignation.” | Read more »
Letter from a Former Boeing Software Engineer

Richard Fuhr | October 31

"[T]he risk of making mistakes or overlooking critical details was very high" at Boeing’s workplaces. | Read more »
Do People Care About Extreme Inequality?

Arthur MacEwan | October 7

Dear Dr. Dollar: Extreme inequality is having negative impacts throughout society. How long can this situation last? Will public opinion ever reflect my disapproval? | Read more »
Brazil’s Ten-Year Downward Spiral

James M. Cypher
and Guillermo Foladori | September 22

How and why has Brazil fallen so far, so fast? | Read more »
The Limits of Ethical Consumerism

Marc Triller | September 21

Can we save the world, one bamboo spork at a time? | Read more »
Try Higher Wages

BARRY DEUTSCH | September 6

A response to employers who say they've tried everything to find new workers. | Read more »
Social Infrastructure and the Care Crisis

YING CHEN, ZHONGJIN LI, AND YANG ZHAN | August 19

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

Cory Doctorow | July 30

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 | July 7

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

Arthur MacEwan | June 29

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

Jawied Nawabi | June 10

Review of Why Austerity Persists by Jon Shefner and Cory Blad (Polity, 2020) | Read more »
Behind the Virtuous Façade

Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher | May 24

The USMCA’s Rerstructuring of Mexico’s Labor Relations | Read more »
In the Drivers’ Seat

Luis Feliz Leon | May 13

Can a cooperative in New York City point the way for reining in Big Tech? | Read more »
India’s Farmers’ Protests

Sirisha Naidu | May 1

What’s behind one of the largest protests in history? | Read more »
Can the Decline of Unions Be Reversed?

Arthur MacEwan | April 27

Dear Dr. Dollar: Am I right to be pessimistic about significant reductions of inequality, at least through the impact of unions? | Read more »
Libor Rigging Redux

JOHN SUMMA | April 9

Was there a third dimension to the Libor scandal? | Read more »

Special to the Web:

Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2018

DOLLARS & SENSE | December 31

From deindustrialization to guard labor to the tepid global recovery, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2018. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »

Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement

Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016

On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »

Thirty Years of Farm Aid

CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015

Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.

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