Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality

The Classroom in Crisis

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Victoria Baena

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Specter of Inflation

Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.

Andrew Elrod

Class & Inequality, Politics

How Not to Fix Gentrification

The community development industry has failed in the fight for fair housing. Despite claiming to involve residents, power and self-interest still have the final say.

Michael Gecan

Class & Inequality

Beyond Neoliberal Trade

With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets.

Arjun Jayadev, J. W. Mason

Class & Inequality, Politics

New Book: Public Purpose

On industrial policy’s comeback and government’s role in shared prosperity. Preorder our Summer 2021 book now. 

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Workplace Training in the Age of AI

To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.

Nichola Lowe

Class & Inequality, Politics

Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists

The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.

Prabhat Patnaik

Class & Inequality

China and the Lure of Global Capitalism

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Macabe Keliher

Class & Inequality

Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning entailed creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.

Simon Torracinta

Class & Inequality, Politics

Our Insurance Dystopia

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

Caley Horan

Class & Inequality, Politics

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South in the run-up to the Civil War.

Chris Hong, Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson