Capitalism in the Time of Trump?
Neoliberal capitalism has led to underinvestment, lowering productivity and increasing inequality. Will Trump make things better or worse?
Read more...Neoliberal capitalism has led to underinvestment, lowering productivity and increasing inequality. Will Trump make things better or worse?
Read more...A wide-ranging interview by Michael Hudson on the mind games that economists play.
Read more...US life expectancy declines for the first time in 23 years, with rates increasing for eight of the ten leading causes of death.
Read more...Trump turns to billionaires as Cabinet picks: apparently “draining the swamp” means filling it with new layers of golden sludge.
Read more...“Inclusive growth” is economics NewSpeak for pretending to be concerned about the diminished opportunities for the middle and lower classes.
Read more...Any plan by Democrats to “Help Working People” should begin with the word “jobs.” But an obsession with austerity makes that impossible.
Read more...Nancy Altman discusses prospects for privatisation of Medicare and Social Security raised by Trump’s HHS and other nomination announcements.
Read more...Europe is ignoring the lessons of New Deal era much to its peril.
Read more...A look at some of the economic and political issues related to globalization.
Read more...Why the politics of sex in particular, and identity politics in general, have undermined the left.
Read more...Why Democrats like Howard Dean believe in and sell austerity snake oil.
Read more...Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
Read more...Coming to a municipality near you..
Read more...Krugman’s fiscal orthodoxy led him to enable Hillary’s disastrous embrace of austerity rather than call her out for it.
Read more...Black recounts how fundamental austerity-driven economic policies had become to the Democrats and how Hillary embraced them wholeheartedly.
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