economy

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

The battle over the bailout—set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

Andrew Elrod, Mark Engler

Class & Inequality

Should There Be a COVID-19 Rent Strike?

While the government and some banks have announced mortgage moratoriums, they have not insisted that rent relief be passed on to tenants. Many renters don’t know what they will do come April 1, let alone May 1.

Mordecai Lyon

Class & Inequality

End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All

We face an economic crisis not least because the rules of corporate governance slight workers and preclude economic resiliency. We must reform them now.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

Step One in Fighting the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

We must act now to support families and businesses. Greatly expanding U.S. unemployment insurance is an obvious way to go—in part because the system is already up and running.

Arindrajit Dube

Class & Inequality

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity.

Hannah Appel

Class & Inequality

For Whom the Markets Toll

Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis.

Reed Hundt

Class & Inequality

Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Gabriel Zucman, Emmanuel Saez

Class & Inequality

Conservatives’ Newfound Interest in Dignified Work

They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.

Suresh Naidu

Race

Against Black Homeownership

The real estate market is so structured by race that black families will never come out ahead.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Long History of Debt Cancellation

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

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

How Not to Argue for Tax Justice

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

Economy

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

Class & Inequality

Should There Be a COVID-19 Rent Strike?

Class & Inequality

End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All

Class & Inequality

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

Class & Inequality

Step One in Fighting the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

Class & Inequality

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Class & Inequality

For Whom the Markets Toll

Class & Inequality

Taxing the Superrich

Class & Inequality

Conservatives’ Newfound Interest in Dignified Work

Race

Against Black Homeownership

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Long History of Debt Cancellation

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

How Not to Argue for Tax Justice

American Racism in the Time of Plagues

Alone Against the Virus

Markets v. Lives

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

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