Where the Climate Buck Stops
Climate superfunds are a sensible way to put some of the costs back where they belong, but we’ll get them only if the public demands them.
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Will Artificial Intelligence Mean Massive Job Loss?
Dear Dr. Dollar: What's the story with artificial intelligence and jobs? Will the application of robotics to production
Are We Stuck in a Period of Economic Stagnation?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Is it really true (or likely) that the U.S. and world economies are entering an extended
Do Trade Agreements Foreclose Progressive Policy?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Doesn’t the increasing liberalization of U.S. international economic policies foreclose the possibilities for progressive policies
Puerto Rico’s Colonial Economy
Dear Dr. Dollar: It seems like Puerto Rico’s economic and financial mess came out of nowhere. Until recently, there
A Case for Public Ownership
Dear Dr. Dollar: Would the U.S. economy work better if some industries were nationalized? Banks? Other industries? Which ones
Inequality in the World
Dear Dr. Dollar: I had thought that neoliberal globalization was making the world more unequal. But recently I have seen
Crony Capitalism, or Plain-Old Capitalism?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Congressional Republicans and the Heritage Foundation are making a big deal about the Export-Import Bank, calling it
The Minimum Wage and Inflation
Dear Dr. Dollar: Would an increase of the minimum wage be inflationary? Would more inflation than we have now be
Why the Shift from Production to Speculation?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Why has our economy switched so greatly away from manufacturing that produces real goods and services that
The Airfare Mystery
Dear Dr. Dollar: Boston is 3,280 air miles from London, only 27% further than the 2,580 air miles
Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?
Dear Dr. Dollar: There is a great deal of awareness of the general increase of income inequality in the United
Structural Adjustment, Here and There
Dear Dr. Dollar: What are the similarities and differences between structural adjustment in the rest of the world/Third World and structural adjustment in the United States? --Vicki Legion, San Francisco, Calif.