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Economics After Neoliberalism

Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.

Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman

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The dead weight of decades of bad economics remains.

Marshall Steinbaum

We need stronger trade unions and corporate accountability.

Alice Evans

The questions at stake aren’t just technical.

Corey Robin

We should welcome low-skill migration instead of trade restrictions.

Margaret E. Peters

There is a reason why economists tend to believe in markets.

William Easterly

Markets raise philosophical questions, not just economic ones.

Debra Satz

Quantification shapes how we think about public policy—often for the worse.

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Neoliberalism has not been all bad for developing countries. Any program for economic change must confront their unique challenges.

Arvind Subramanian

Economics needs to embrace a transdisciplinary approach.

Complexity Economists*

Final Response: Rather than oracles channeling a supply-and-demand deity, economists should be enablers of democratic priorities.

Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman

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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are intertwined in the mutually reinforcing framework of racial capitalism.

Donna Murch

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A Turning Point in Israel

The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.

Odeh Bisharat

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MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

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All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

Merve Emre

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To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Walter Johnson

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Cities on a Hill?

Cities are increasingly being viewed as bastions of progressivism. But can they live up to the promise?

Quinton Mayne

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Notes for Antifa from a Former “Terrorist”

A debate with Mark Bray about Antifa and the use of violence as a political tool.

Amitai Etzioni

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Losing and Gaining Public Goods

To build a tangible, inclusive, meaningful, and durable community, we must begin with public goods.

K. Sabeel Rahman

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The Right to Strike

Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman

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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

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Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

Amna Akbar, Jeanne Theoharis

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Hamilton's Choice

Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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