July/August 2015

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.

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

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

July/August 2015

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars