Class & Inequality

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

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.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

The region has a long legacy of critical engagement with classical political economy, helping to change the way we think about markets and morals.

Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are morally and economically essential.

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.

Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.

Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?