The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
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Background on the crisis in Oaxaca.
Violence has escalated in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Several protesters were killed last Friday, including Brad Will, an independent
The Economist: Weapon of Mass Deduction?
The Economist's latest ad campaign has become ubiquitous in Boston over the past few weeks. Similar to the
Solving the wrong problem in Michigan
Dollars & Sense blogs, and some of our readers blog, too. Today, subscriber Richard Murphy justifies his lack of support
Econamici: The End of Iraq, by Peter Galbraith
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End, by Peter Galbraith From the day the war
Webwashing 2.0
Say you're the manager of a company that does nasty things, like killing union workers in Colombia. Before
2nd US Federation of Worker Cooperatives Conference
D&S co-editor Chris Sturr and business manager Esther Cervantes spent the weekend in New York at the
New Nobel Prize Economist - Wrong on Unemployment?
This year's Nobel Prize winner in economics has just been announced: Edmund Phelps, a Columbia University economist, for
Photos from D&S event available
Dollars & Sense's September 15 event on Economic Justice and African American Communities was a big success. A
Solidarity Economics & Participatory Economics
Ethan Miller's overview of solidarity economics in the July/August issue of Dollars & Sense has started a
See D&S at events in October
The Dollars & Sense collective will be at several events around the northeast this month. Find us at: The presenation
Econamici: Where did The Wealth of Nations come from?
Adam Smith (1723-1790) published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, also the year of the American Revolution. Both The
Economists' Statement Regarding the Need to Raise the Minimum Wage
The folks at the Economic Policy Institute are gathering signatures from economists in support of an increase in the minimum