Tag: Economy

Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.

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

After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

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

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

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

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

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

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

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

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

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

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.