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Mike Konczal

Mike Konczal is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. His work has appeared in The Nation, Slate, and The American Prospect. He blogs at Rortybomb.

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Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.

Mike Konczal

Class & Inequality, Politics

With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough

Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.

Mike Konczal, Felicia Wong

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Forgotten State

Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.

Mike Konczal

Politics

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History

Mike Konczal

Forum Response

Mike Konczal Response to Curbing the New Corporate Power

The effort to protect those vulnerable to corporate power takes many forms.

Mike Konczal

Books & Ideas

Selling Fast

Public Goods, Profits, and State Legitimacy

Mike Konczal

Class & Inequality

Studying the Rich

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century dismantles received economic wisdom on the nature of inequality—including the idea that it is necessary for a rising tide to lift all boats.

Mike Konczal

Class & Inequality

7 Bipartisan Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage

It's only fair, and other reasons why voters on all sides should agree.

Mike Konczal

Forum Response

Dangerous Alternatives to Blame

We need to be cautious. Alternatives to blame may be even worse.

Mike Konczal

Forum

Sweet Forgiveness

Debt relief is fair. It would also be good for the economy. Why isn’t it happening? Politics.

Mike Konczal

Forum Response

Helping Debtors Helps Us All — Final Response

Debt is a political crisis that requires a political response.

Mike Konczal

Forum Response

The real battle is not about eliminating rents but determining who will benefit from them.

The real battle is not about eliminating rents but determining who will benefit from them.

Mike Konczal

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