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The real estate market is so structured by race that black families will never come out ahead.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.
Olivia Schwob
Economists are taking aim at the unfairness of the U.S. tax system. But a just society won’t be won by arguing about taxes alone.
Liam Murphy
Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world, a new book argues. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation—and only the most utopian politics will break its spell.
James G. Chappel
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
Adam Gaffney
On the lure of climate entrepreneurism.
Troy Vettese
For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well. Now, as that foundation crumbles, thirteen thinkers debate new reforms that could transform the inequalities at the heart of our economy.
Lenore Palladino
Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.
Kevin P. Donovan, Emma Park
Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic, a new history shows.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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
We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.
Joshua Cohen
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Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
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