Michael Hoexter: A Pocket Handbook of Soft Climate Denial
More on soft climate denial: acknowledging that climate change is a serious threat but being unwilling to take sufficient steps to combat it.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Latest Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 2
How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Are Our Earnings Really Our ‘Just Deserts’?
Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...The Quiet Desperation of Millennials
A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...Democracy. Capitalism. Socialism. Choose Any Three of the Above
Why capitalism, socialism, and democracy are necessary for any country’s prosperity, economic freedom, and economic well-being.
Read more...Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on the Global Movement for Black Lives
Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, weighs in on issues related to race and racism in America today.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf Tries to Brazen Out Fraud as Congressmen Call Wells a “Criminal Enterprise,” Demand Breakup
Stumpf has another deservedly bad day in the Congressional hot seat.
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...“There Ought to be a Law….” Why Prison is the American Way
How overreaching and poorly conceived laws produce difficult-to-justify prison sentences.
Read more...Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck
People don’t mind inequality due to “brute luck”…but is one man’s brute luck another man’s rigged system?
Read more...Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat
The perilous status of adjuncts, who serve as contingent faculty.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Celebrating the One Percent – Is Inequality Really Good for the Economy?
The backlash has begun. Prominent economists are upping their game in trying to depict the gains of the One Percent as virtuous and beneficial.
Read more...Don’t Celebrate Just Yet: Median Household Income In a 20-Year Decline
Recent statistics from the US Census Bureau show improvement from 2014-2015, but in reality, wages are in a real decline and no mechanisms have been put in place to prevent another crash, says economist Richard Wolff
Read more...Louis Proyect: Snowden
A review of Oliver Stone’s movie on Edward Snowden.
Read more...How the SEC Enabled the Gross Under-Reporing of CEO Pay
Why CEOs are even more grotesquely paid than you thought.
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