Class & Inequality

Class & Inequality

Demand the Imaginable

Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

Madeline Lane-McKinley

Forum

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about Innovation

To generate local, inclusive prosperity, cities must think beyond tech accelerators and science parks and instead embrace a wider range of innovation strategies.

Dan Breznitz

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

How Emerging Markets Hurt Poor Countries

Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities. 

C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Sacrificing for the Climate

In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.

David McDermott Hughes

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. Order 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