Raising Minimum Wages Reduces Recidivism
Another benefit of higher minimum wages.
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From Brothels to Independence: The Neoliberalization of (Sex) Work
Sex workers in the UK are by now just another part of the online, freelance, customer-reviewed digital economy. They story of how they got there exposes a dangerous shift.
Read more...Erasing Economics and Economic Policy from Politics: The Race and Xenophobia Sideshow
More and more economic studies find that inequality hurts growth. Adolph Reed discusses why politicians focus on divisive messaging rather than broad-based economic policies.
Read more...Can Politics Ever Be Compassionate?
Why the time is overdue to have politics give much higher priority to reducing suffering.
Read more...Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...Civilized Societies Don’t Call It Censorship, but Copyright
Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...A Follow-Up on the Reasons for Prime Age Labor Force Non-Participation
Some surprising findings on why labor force participation of prime age men is flagging.
Read more...Buried in “Hilariously Stupid” White House Attack on Socialism, An Accidentally Strong Argument for Medicare for All
Amid hysterical comparisons between Senator Bernie Sanders and Mao Zedong, the Council of Economic Advisers unwittingly makes a solid case for socialist policies.
Read more...#MeToo Under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s
#MeToo on Capitol Hill, and #MeToo at McDonald’s
Read more...How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
contemporary American business and economic culture has a moral framework: neoliberalism. This framework is dependably orthogonal to the last 50,000 years of moral norms and traditions.
Read more...Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center Shuts Down Prison Debate Program
Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Read more...J.D. Alt: Will the Democrats Change the Subject?
Will the Democrats get out of their own way?
Read more...Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
A critique of the bad-model-induced fear-mongering over Italy’s proposed budget deficits
Read more...Is India on Its Way Out of Poverty?
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, discusses a recent UNDP report showing that poverty in India has halved in the last 10 years, and the newly unveiled healthcare plan for the bottom 40% of the population, nicknamed “Modicare.”
Read more...High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage
Yves here. The decline in use of high-deductible health insurance policies is important not just for employees who get insurance at work, but for the public generally. The retreat by employers will make it harder to treat high-deductible plans as a preferred option for expanded government-provided care. Note that employers health care costs, as you […]
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