capitalism
What is “inclusive prosperity?”
January 26, 2015President's Obama's State of the Union address included a welcome centerpiece proposal taxing finance capital and the rich, and giving it to the middle class and poor.
Read moreEconomists fight over “Capital”: Piketty vs. establishment
January 7, 2015A Harvard economist was reduced to making personal attacks as he tried to evade Thomas Piketty's key theses about capitalism and its tendencies toward unsustainable inequality.
Read moreWanted: an economy that puts people first
November 12, 2014I have a confession to make. In the series of articles I have supposedly been writing about income inequality, I have really been writing about something else: need.
Read moreMy first protest demonstration: Where do we go from here?
October 28, 2014We must defeat every right-wing politician on Election Day and elect a government that responds to the people's concerns around climate change, rather than denies it.
Read moreThe dark side of academic moonlighting
October 16, 2014Seventy-three percent of polled Americans believe corruption in government is widespread; but there is a more subtle form of corruption, even less transparent.
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