Issue 315: November/December 2014—40th-Anniversary Issue

Are We Better Off Than We Were 40 Years Ago?

By Zoe Sherman

Weighing increased per capita income against rising inequality, insecurity, burdens of work, and environmental degradation. | Read more »
Why We All Need Affirmative Action

By Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Recent shootings of young black men sound the alarm for public policies that directly counter racist stereotypes. | Read more »
U.S. Polluters Über Alles

By John Miller

The Wall Street Journal editors brush off climate activism. | Read more »
Inequality in the World

By Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Recently I have seen claims that the distribution of income in the world has become more equal. Is this true? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

Taming the Corporate Beast, Pt. 2

By Marianne Hill

Let’s get democratic with new collaborative companies. | Order this issue or subscribe.

editors’ note D&S at 40
the short run
funny you should ask
comment It’s About Ideas, Stupid!
in review Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, House of Debt; Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig, The Bankers’ New Clothes
economy in numbers Regulated vs. Neoliberal Capitalism
40th anniversary retrospective From 1974: What Good Is a Recession?