March/April 2020

Retirement Savings in the Dark

For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

The Fed and the Coronavirus Crisis

Gerald Epstein

We must not keep underwriting the bloated and unproductive global financial system—helping it to lurch, prosper, and crash, from crisis to crisis. | Read more »
Coronavirus: A Capitalist Crisis

Richard D. Wolff

The catastrophe demonstrates the results when public health is subordinate to private profit and to a governmental apparatus that adulates the superiority of private over public administration. | Read more »
Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

A Proposal for the Government to Act as Buyer of Last Resort | Read more »
Do Sweat the Big Stuff

Zoe Sherman

Review of the Huntington Theater's production of Sweat. | Read more »

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The Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil

Débora Nunes

Why hydroelectric-generated energy is not at all clean.

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Retirement Savings in the Dark

Interview: The Economics of Trump's War on Iran

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

March/April 2020

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the regulars