Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy
There are other ways to organize U.S. international trade. The neoliberal free trade of recent decades and the trade restrictions of Trumpian tariffs are not the only options.
Today, many Chileans—and many sympathizers from around the world—will commemorate and mourn the 40th anniversary of the 1973
If you hear somebody talking about the U.S. "jobs problem," ask them which one they mean. Let&
The "headline" unemployment rate, or U-3 by its Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) designation, has declined from a
In 1960, government transfers to individuals totaled $24 billion. By 2010, that total was 100 times as large. Even after
Between 1979 and 2007, the income share of the top 1% of U.S. households (by income rank) more than
If the recession is supposedly over, why is there still so much unemployment? Overall demand (in the U.S. economy
Today's economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure.
What can the crisis of U.S. capitalism in the 1970s teach us about the current crisis and its possible outcomes?
The death last November of Milton Friedman, one of the best known and most influential conservative economists of the 20th
U.S. elites mean to prevent anyone, anywhere, from ever challenging the preeminence of American imperial power. Just ask them.
Considering all the stories of corporate treachery that have made headlines over the last year, you would think that accusations