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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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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

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, 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

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

Class & Inequality

A Jobless Utopia?

A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.

David McDermott Hughes

Class & Inequality, Race

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

David Stein

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Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore. 

Marshall Steinbaum

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