Cory Doctorow - Dollars & Sense

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

September/October 2025

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

CORY DOCTOROW is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger. This article originally appeared at Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net [https://pluralistic.net/

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Issue 355

Monopoly So Fragile

Container ships that have gotten "too big to sail" illustrate one of the less-appreciated harms of monopoly.

Cory Doctorow Jul 1, 2021