The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
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View articlesJohn Miller is a professor emeritus of economics at Wheaton College and a member of the Dollars & Sense collective.
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View articlesFRANK STRICKER is a member of the National Jobs for All Network and author of American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future (2020).
View articlesGerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
View articlesSteven Pressman is professor of economics and finance at Monmouth University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Fifty Major Economists, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2006).
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View articlesMARIE CHRISTINE DUGGAN is a professor of economics at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2000.
View articlesJeannette Wicks-Lim is an economist and research fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She specializes in labor economics.
View articlesZOE SHERMAN is a political economist and economic historian. She holds a Ph.D. from UMass-Amherst, was a professor of economics at Merrimack College for 10 years, and has been a member of the Dollars & Sense collective since 2014.
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View articlesRob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and author of several books including Bit Tyrants, Capitalism vs. Freedom, and Mastering the Universe.
View articlesJOHN WEEKS is a London-based member of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), one of the founders of the UK-based Economists for Rational Economic Policies, and part of the European Researc
View articlesSasha Breger Bush is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado-Denver and author of Derivatives and Development.
View articlesMarty is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, he was an economist with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.
View articlesRobert Ovetz is a senior lecturer in political science and the Master of Public Administration program at San Jose State University, labor scholar, and rank-and-file organizer for the California Facul
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View articlesJim Campen teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He was a member of the Dollars & Sense collective from 1974 to 1982.
View articlesMARJOLEIN VAN DER VEEN is an economist who has taught economics in Massachusetts, the Seattle area, and in the Netherlands.
View articlesKatherine Sciacchitano is a former labor lawyer and organizer. She currently teaches at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.
View articlesChuck Collins is codirector of United for a Fair Economy in Boston. He is coauthor with Holly Sklar and Betsy Leondar-Wright of Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the American Wealth Gap.
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View articlesRichard D. Wolff is a visiting professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at New School University.
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View articlesJames K. Boyce is a senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Economics for People and the Planet (2019).
View articlesDean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
View articlesAmanda Page-Hoongrajok is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Saint Peter ' s University in Jersey City, N.J.
View articlesJOHN SUMMA is an independent researcher, author, and economist. He has taught economics since 1989, most recently at the University of Vermont (2009-2017).
View articlesMike-Frank Epitropoulos teaches sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He spent three years teaching in private and public higher education in Greece before returning to the United States.
View articlesMark Maier teaches economics at Glendale Community College in Glendale, California.
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View articlesBill Fletcher, Jr., is the president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit educational and organizing center formed to raise awareness in the United States regarding issues facing t
View articlesKRISTIAN WILLIAMS is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (South End Press, 2007), and a member of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981).
View articlesGREG PALAST, a Puffin Foundation fellow in investigative reporting, is also author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and Vultures' Picnic. TED RALL, 2
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View articlesNICOLE ASCHOFF is a sociologist and writer living in the Boston area. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin magazine and she blogs at thisgameisrigged.wordpress.com.
View articlesMatías Vernengo is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (vernengo@economics.utah.edu).
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View articlesDan La Botz teaches history and Latin American studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and works with Labor Notes, the labor education and organizing center in Detroit. He is the author of books
View articlesSTEPHEN BARTON is on the board of the Bay Area Community Land Trust and was Housing Director for the City of Berkeley and deputy director of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Program.
View articlesKENNY STANCIL is a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project with broad interests in the political economy of inequality and just transitions to an egalitarian, democratic, and sustainable society.
View articlesChristian Weller is a staff economist with the Center for Popular Economics, and a Research Intern with the Public Policy Department, AFL-CIO.
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View articlesMark Paul is a postdoctoral associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
View articlesJAYATI GHOSH is professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
View articlesBarry Eidlin is an associate professor of sociology at McGill University, and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada. Between 1997 and 2003, prior to embarking on his a
View articlesMaurice Dufour teaches political science and humanities at Marianopolis College in Montreal. An earlier version of this article appeared in the online journal Countercurrents.
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