March/April 2018

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.

Modern Money

Robert Hockett

A Legal, Functional, and Historical Primer on Modern Monetary Theory Read more »
Rising Asset Bubbles Distort the Industrial Base

Marie Christine Duggan

Part 2 of a Series on Deindustrialization in Keene, N.H. Read more »
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

Noah Berlatsky

If the essence of neoliberalism is an ideological faith in the righteous virtue of individual choice, then self-help books are the true heirs of Milton Friedman. Read more »
Growing Together, Flying Apart

Gerald Friedman

Regional Disparities in American Politics and Economics Read more »

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editor’s note This Is Your Economy on Finance
the short run
up against the Wall Street Journal The Stock Market and Class Conflict
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Interview: The Global Political Economy of Copper

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future

March/April 2018

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars