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Articles in Class & Inequality tagged with Politics

Is there anything left to anti-imperial visions of global commerce?

Kate Yoon

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

Daniel Martinez HoSang, Mie Inouye

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Will Holub-Moorman

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

Salim Vally, Enver Motala

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

Jonathan Levy

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Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.

Christine Sypnowich

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

Timothy Weaver

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Pranab Bardhan

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

Alex Raskolnikov

Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

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