March/April 2021

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

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 »

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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

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

March/April 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars