Did the Farm Credit System Change Americans’ Thinking About Credit?
How and why the farm credit system served as the first Federal experiment in using cheap credit as an economic and policy tool.
Read more...How and why the farm credit system served as the first Federal experiment in using cheap credit as an economic and policy tool.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a freewheeling interview on some favorite topics like rentier capitalism and why the Great Moderation wasn’t so great.
Read more...Policy choices have subjected manufacturing workers to global competition while shielding high-wage professionals.
Read more...Is the Baby Bonds plan to give newborns an account proportionate to their degree of disadvantage inspired or just a misguided gimmick?
Read more...Dean Baker explains how market structure, which results from policy choices, legislation, and regulation, serve the rich first and foremost.
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Read more...An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Debunking the claim that extending unemployment insurance during the aftermath of the crisis was a bad idea.
Read more...How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...Why analyzing minimum wage increases solely in terms of labor market impact is shortsighted.
Read more...How overreaching and poorly conceived laws produce difficult-to-justify prison sentences.
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