When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
This is an update of the author's June 2020 article. --Eds. The economic fallout of the Covid-19
Some of the economic consequences of a massive communicable-disease crisis might arise in any society, regardless of the system
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19
Part 1 of a new joint series in and Dollars & Sense: "Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers' Movement"
Cross-posted from our sister blog, Triple Crisis. Frank Ackerman is principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge, Mass.
Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis;” see Part 1 and Part 2 .
Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way(Click for Pt. 1: Monetary Union and Fiscal Disunion.)
Capitalist Internationalism, Reactionary Nationalism, and Socialist Internationalism
Part 1: Monetary Union and Fiscal Disunion
In a full-page ad in Thursday's New York Times, the Employment Policies Institute urged readers to "