November/December 2019

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.

Are Taxes the Best Way of Dealing with Inequality?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Are taxes on the rich, on their income and their wealth, the best option for reducing extreme inequality? | Read more »
Neoliberalism and Climate Change

Robert Pollin

The Green New Deal as an anti-neoliberalism program. | Read more »
Social Crises, Crises of Democracy, Neoliberalism in Crisis

Romaric Godin

The economic basis of the recent protests around the world. | Read more »

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45 Years of Neoliberalism, 45 Years of Dollars & Sense
Juliet Schor, Robert Pollin, Chris Tilly, and James M. Cypher

Longtime D&S authors reflect on the history of our current economic order and what might come next.

Neoliberalism vs. History

Nick Thorkelson and Alejandro Reuss

A reprise of one of the classic “Comic Strips of Neoliberalism.”

Why Dollars & Sense?

Zoe Sherman, Abhilasha Srivastava, Rob Larson, Riko Rosete, Cadwell Turnbull, Sarah Cannon, Francisco Aldape, Ramaa Vasudevan, Débora Nunes, and Noe Wiener

In honor of D&S’s 45th anniversary, ten supporters under 45 say what D&S means to them.

the regulars

editor’s note Our Current Economic Order
the short run
active culture Chicago Teachers’ Strike
in review Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
45th anniversary reprints From March 1988: Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Economics

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future

The Latest Job Calamity—Mostly Home-Made

November/December 2019

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars