capitalism
Today in history: Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
May 5, 2015The ideas of Marxism are like a vintage wine.
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Unionists storm Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers vs. fast-track
March 5, 2015Several hundred unionists fanned out over Capitol Hill on Mar. 4 to lobby lawmakers to vote against so-called "fast-track" trade promotion authority.
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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.
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Economists 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.
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Wanted: 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.
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