Economics
Economist: Guaranteed living-wage jobs best way to address inequality
August 19, 2016Noted African-American economics professor Darrick Hamilton is proposing federally-guaranteed jobs, at living wages, for everyone.
Read moreReader’s correspondence: Reply to Libretti on inequality
June 29, 2016Even under socialism, doctors and lawyers will receive higher salaries than custodians, postal workers, cashiers, and fast food workers.
Read moreOpen source socialism: Harnessing innovation for progressive change
June 29, 2016The impulse for large-scale, government-led democratic socialist reforms could produce the qualitative transformation Marx counted on.
Read moreDreaming of Brexit
June 28, 2016Globalization is unstoppable. Even war will only produce a pause in the process. But its shape, boundaries, and direction are all subject to initiative.
Read moreEuropean activists move in for deathblow on TTIP trade deal after leak
May 13, 2016Leaked internal drafts of TTIP show that corporations are still lobbying for the right to sue governments for lost profits.
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