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?

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

Class & Inequality

Understanding Populist Challenges to the Liberal Order

The idea that the rise of populism was caused by market-driven inequalities fails to address why populism is so cozy with crony capitalists.

Pranab Bardhan

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

Anke Hassel

Class & Inequality, Race

No Racial Justice Without Basic Income

A basic income that supplemented existing welfare structures could make everyone safer while ending the most pernicious forms of policing.

The Undercommons

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Works

Recipients of basic income continue to work, spend less on vice, and are able to invest in long-term plans.

Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye

Class & Inequality

Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which new technologies render most workers unnecessary, sparking widespread poverty and disorder. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

All in the Family Debt

Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality

Polanyi, the Failed Prophet of Moral Economics

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

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

Class & Inequality

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

Class & Inequality

A Jobless Utopia?

Class & Inequality, Race

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

Forum

Basic Income in a Just Society

Class & Inequality

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

Class & Inequality

Understanding Populist Challenges to the Liberal Order

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Class & Inequality, Race

No Racial Justice Without Basic Income

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Works

Class & Inequality

Basic Income in a Just Society

Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

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

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

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