How Do We Reclaim Control Of Our Lives When the Economy Looms So Grim?
Lean Logic, community, and a post-growth world.
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The American Opioid Epidemic
More discussion of the possible causes and implications of the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Bill Black: Kansas Legislature Slips Koch Noose, Authorizes Medicaid Expansion
The Kansas legislature bucks long-standing Republican orthodoxy and votes for Medicaid expansion. A harbinger or a one-off?
Read more...How Monopolies Stymie Political Activism: The Case of Black-Owned Businesses
Black businessmen and political thinkers long recognized that monopolies threatened their communities and their ability to serve as activists,
Read more...Wanted: A Skulk of Foxes, or the Case-Deaton Health Study and Trump
Latest study shows white working class suffers health declines: can hedgehog Trump assemble a skulk of foxes to craft responsive policies?
Read more...Italy at the Grim Edge of a Global Problem (Updated)
With the average 20-year-old Italian now looking to wait 18 years before living independently, who will support Italy’s pensioners?
Read more...A More Equitable Economy Exists Right Next Door
Meet Quebec’s social economy.
Read more...Alice in Gender-Gap Land
The gender pay gap persists, even in supposedly female-friendly fields like the arts, when women have similar credentials and experience.
Read more...Who Benefits From the Mayo Clinic Explicitly Putting Commercially Insured Patients Ahead of Some Government Insured Patients?
The Mayo Clinic takes a big step backwards in patient care.
Read more...The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
Read more...Some Easy Straw Men: Zack Beauchamp, Sanders, Economics, and Identity Politics
What Zack Beauchamp gets wrong about Bernie Sanders and “populism”
Read more...Diversity and Public Goods: The More We Mix, the Better
Making diversity work is a challenge, but it can be done.
Read more...How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation
Can changes in ownership rules tame the bad features of capitalism?
Read more...Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn From Speedboat Races in Japan
How much credence should we give to studies on sex-related performance differences?
Read more...Persuasion: An Introduction
Understanding the drivers of persuasion and other influence techniques.
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