November/December 2012

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  “Free-Market” Outcomes Are Not Fair
  —and Not Free

  By Marty Wolfson

  True or false?: “Since 1980, the U.S. government has reduced its intervention in the U.S. economy, which has become much more of a free market. Conservatives embrace this outcome, while progressives object to it.” Read more »

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  Highway Robbery

  By Darwin Bondgraham

  How “public-private parternships” extract private profit from public infrastructure projects. Read more »

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  Structural Adjustment, Here and There

  By Arthur Macewan

  Dear Dr. Dollar: What are the similarities and differences between structural adjustment in the rest of the world/Third World and structural adjustment in the United States? Read more »

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  The Big Lie About the “Entitlement State”

  By Alejandro Reuss

  Is New York Times columnist David Brooks right that growth in “entitlements”—government programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—“will bankrupt the country”? Read more »

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Europe and the Global Crisis

By Jayati Ghosh

Austerity policies are driving the eurozone to the brink, and threatening a new global downturn. | Order this issue or subscribe.

Higher Education as a Workplace

By Joe Berry and Helena Worthen

As higher education is corporatized and privatized, campus labor is increasingly casualized. | Order this issue or subscribe.