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Articles tagged with economy
Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.
Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.
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.
With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets.
For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty. We could use more of his improvisatory optimism today.
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.
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.
