Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt

The Political Economy of Palestine

Introducing a Collaboration between the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) and Dollars & Sense

Jennifer C. Olmsted Nov 1, 2026

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 28, 2026

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

Nick French Oct 26, 2026

ELLORA DERENONCOURT is an assistant professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. ZOE SHERMAN is a member of the Dollars & Sense collective and is an associate p

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March/April 2021

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat at the Door to the Promised Land

The Economic History of the Great Migration and Its Aftermath

Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt Mar 1, 2021