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Class & Inequality

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Melinda Cooper

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Class & Inequality

Draining the Swamp

Mar-a-Lago is the apotheosis of the Florida Dream in which wealthy interests degrade the environment and hollow out prospects for the poor. But as Hurricane Irma shows, this dream was never sustainable.

Julian C. Chambliss

Class & Inequality

It's The Gap, Stupid

Three new books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.

Archon Fung

Class & Inequality

A New Social Contract for Work

This Labor Day, it is not enough to speak out against Trump's many injustices. We must also begin laying the foundations for working together in the post-Trump era, whenever that arrives.

Thomas A. Kochan, Lee Dyer

Class & Inequality

When Politics Drives Scholarship

Nancy MacLean’s new book has set off a heated debate. But strong claims require strong evidence, and mistakes could mislead liberals and the left.

Henry Farrell, Steven M. Teles

Class & Inequality

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

Kochonomics: The Racist Roots of Public Choice Theory

A controversial new book traces how the anti-democratic projects of the Jim Crow South evolved into an economic theory still championed by the GOP today.

Bethany Moreton

Class & Inequality

What the Minimum Wage Debate Gets Wrong

Critics of raising the minimum wage claim that it decreases employment, but they are missing the larger point.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

Will Amazon Take Over the World?

What the rise of megaplatforms means for the rest of us.

Frank Pasquale

Class & Inequality

A Defense of Slowbalization

When it comes to globalization, slowing down is the best way forward.

Andrew Schrank

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class and the rest of America.

Richard V. Reeves

Class & Inequality

Polanyi, the Failed Prophet of Moral Economics

Polanyi gave us a vital counterpoint to the hegemony of political economics. But how far can he take us?

Jeremy Adelman

Class & Inequality

Trump's Sleight of Hand Will Bring Ruin to American Workers

Trump's policies spell disaster for economic equality. And the worst is yet to come.

Lauren Carasik

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