Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality

Games Economists Play

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

Homes for Citizens

New York public housing is plagued with problems, but it possesses a democratic advantage that voucher systems lack: residents can hold the state accountable not only as tenants but as constituents.

Salonee Bhaman, Pedro A. Regalado

Class & Inequality

RIP Shareholder Primacy

For decades, the theory has obscured the basic standard that employees should do well when businesses do well. With cracks now in the foundation, however, new reforms could transform the inequalities at the heart of our economy.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.

Kevin P. Donovan, Emma Park

Class & Inequality

Everyday Economists

The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?

Samuel Bowles, Joshua Cohen

Class & Inequality

Forum XI: Economics After Neoliberalism

Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, political scientists, and philosophers, our Summer 2019 issue asks them to consider a radically different future for the field.

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Overdosing in Appalachia

Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis.

Lesly-Marie Buer

Class & Inequality

New Rules, New Politics

How a revolution in economics has led to a new kind of politics.

Felicia Wong

Class & Inequality, Reading Lists

Get Organized

“Organizing is the strategy on which the success of all others depend. Yet it is the strategy that most progressives talk about the least.”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Forum

Why the Labor Movement Has Failed—And How to Fix It

Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, Joseph A. McCartin

Class & Inequality

The False Promise of Enlightenment

Three new books paint a chilling portrait of darkness in Wall Street, the law, and technology. But the apocalyptic metaphors obscure the real problem, hindering how we fight back.

Quinn Slobodian

Class & Inequality

Apple's Newest Store and the Perverse Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism

The Apple Carnegie Library embodies recent developments in philanthropy that should trouble us: the uncritical valorization of philanthro-capitalism and the privatization of public goods and public spaces.

Benjamin Soskis