March/April 2021

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

Libor Rigging Redux

John Summa

Was there a third dimension to the Libor scandal? | Read more »
Pandemic Mail

Christy Pottroff

Reimagining the role of the USPS during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic by looking to the past. | Read more »
Free to Lose

John Miller

Selling out workers and retirees to their financial advisors. | Read more »
Caring by the Dollar

Bill Barclay

Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 | Read more »
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat at the Door to the Promised Land

Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt

The Economic History of the Great Migration and Its Aftermath | Read more »
Why Is Student Debt Cancelation a Big Deal?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: I’ve noticed news reports about the possible cancellation of student debt. Why has this become such a big deal recently? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars

editor’s note In the News
the short run
in review L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, AndersWijkman, and John Fullerton, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life; Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist; Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
the economy in numbers The High Costs and Low Quality of U.S. Health Care

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

March/April 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars