Matias Vernengo - Dollars & Sense

Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jun 16, 2025

May/June 2025

The Wall Street Journal editors make it clear whose side they’re on.

John Miller Jun 2, 2025

Mike Prokosch discusses his article on short staffing, when employers intentionally hire too few workers as a menthod of work intensification.

D&S Admin May 22, 2025

Matías Vernengo is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (vernengo@economics.utah.edu).

2 articles

Issue 309

Economic historian Carlo Cipolla famously noted that human beings fall into four basic categories: the martyr who takes an action

Matias Vernengo Nov 1, 2013

Issue 259

Latin America has a new crop of leftist leaders, but their macroeconomic policies are sadly familiar.

Matias Vernengo May 1, 2005