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Economy

Class & Inequality

The Last Man to Know Everything

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

Troy Vettese

Politics

What Would Frances Perkins Do?

This Labor Day, we should turn to Frances Perkins—FDR’s secretary of labor, and the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet—for the elements of a new forward-looking labor and employment policy.

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality

Think Different

Apple—now worth a trillion dollars—redistributes more wealth upward than any country or corporation on the planet.

Robert Homan

Race

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Class & Inequality

The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade

The left has not articulated an alternative trade agenda that supports all the world’s workers in a global economy.

Erik Loomis

Class & Inequality

Public Benefit, Incorporated

Three simple changes to corporate law could radically remake our economy.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality

The Market Police

In the neoliberal project, state power is needed to enforce market relations. But because democratic politics can demand broader economic planning, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.  

J. W. Mason

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Class & Inequality

Marx’s New Deal

On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

The public has paid for Musk’s vision. So why is the green economy still not here?

Andrew Elrod

Class & Inequality

Who Is Watching Wall Street?

Stock buybacks are on the rise, and they are shortchanging workers and undermining our economy like never before.

Lenore Palladino

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