Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

September/October 2025

Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

There is no tradeoff—immigration fuels the economy.

John Miller Oct 9, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Private Equity’s Profit Charade

Private equity's seemingly high returns have been attributed to "freedom" from regulation. But, however explained, there is the question of how real the private equity profits have actually been.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 7, 2025

November/December 2018

Issue 339

Reindustrialization in the Granite State

Marie Duggan

Part III of the Series “Deindustrialization in the Granite State”: Diamond Turning in the Age of Impatient Finance | Read more »
Trying Again for Full Employment

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment? | Read more »

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the regulars

editor’s note Jobs for All
the short run
up against the wall street journal Donald in Wonderland
[sources for this article available here]
in reviewAnne Lowrey, Give People Money; Sharon McCornell-Sidorick, Silk Stockings and Socialism
economy in numbers The Global Recovery from the Financial Crisis
ask dr. dollar Does Short-Selling Harm the Economy?