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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

Class & Inequality

Our Top Ten Reads on Inequality in 2017

From the GOP tax bill to the resurgence of neoliberal economics, there are plenty of reminders that we are living in one of the most unequal times in modern history.

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Class & Inequality, Race

A Bad Check for Black America

Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.

Mehrsa Baradaran

Class & Inequality, Podcast

Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism

As we heap scorn on neoliberalism, we risk throwing out some of its most useful ideas.

Dani Rodrik

Class & Inequality

In the Name of Victims

Beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.

Kristin Bumiller

Class & Inequality

Monopoly Men

After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.

K. Sabeel Rahman

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

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

A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed

When higher education is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all. The good news is we have done this once before.

Marshall Steinbaum

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

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

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