Jayati Ghosh

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.

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.

JAYATI GHOSH is professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

2 articles

May/June 2020

Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism

This article is from our series on the history of neoliberalism, solicited as part of our celebration of the 45th

Jayati Ghosh May 1, 2020

March/April 2017

Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy

Twenty-first century imperialism has changed its form. In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century,

Jayati Ghosh Mar 1, 2017

The Political Economy of Palestine

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

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism

Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy