Economics
Red diaper babies at Tribeca and off Broadway
May 14, 2013The award-winning drama Finks is a fictionalized play by Joe Gilford based on the lives of his actor/comedian parents, Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist.
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The last mainstream intellectual defense of austerity crumbles
April 25, 2013In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (know in the econ trade as "R & R") released a paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt."
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The Cuban Revolution began in 1959
April 8, 2013One thing is apparent to anyone who has studied Cuban society as Esteban Morales has: the subject of racism is far from "taboo" in Cuba.
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Is full employment possible under capitalism?
February 27, 2013By last count, approximately 12 million Americans were officially unemployed. Of those, 4.7 million have been jobless for 27 weeks or longer.
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Global capitalism: The gift that keeps on taking
December 26, 2012What should we be teaching people, most especially the youth about the holiday season?
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