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Class & Inequality

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

Simon Torracinta

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Class & Inequality

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The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

Jeff Gates

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

Jay Mandle

Class & Inequality, Politics

Going Public

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

David Donnelly, Janice Fine, Ellen S. Miller

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Solving the New Inequality

Income inequality has skyrocketed. What can policy do about it?

Richard B. Freeman

Class & Inequality, Politics

Time for a Wealth Tax?

In 1995, Forbes magazine counted a record 129 American billionaires. Though the super-salaries of

Edward Wolff

Class & Inequality

Hype or Help?

Globalization and the Fight over Labor Standards

Alice H. Amsden

Class & Inequality, Race

On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

A response to Noam Chomsky.

Reverend Eugene Rivers

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Ellen Spirer

Class & Inequality, Race

Ethnicity and Education

The politics of black education, 1780-1980.

Tony Hill

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

I. A. Richards at Harvard

The most extraordinary teacher of poetry I ever encountered.

Helen Vendler

Class & Inequality, Politics

Saving Social Security

A gimmick-free plan for long-term solvency.

Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag

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