Class & Inequality

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.

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.

With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets.

To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.

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.

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

How a grassroots movement of American farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy.