July/August 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.

The Limits of Ethical Consumerism

Marc Triller

Can we save the world, one bamboo spork at a time? | Read more »
Social Infrastructure and the Care Crisis

Ying Chen, Zhongjin Li,and Yang Zhan

An Evaluation of China’s Covid-19 Experience | Read more »
Monopoly So Fragile

Cory Doctorow

Container ships that have gotten “too big to sail” illustrate one of the less-appreciated harms of monopoly. | Read more »
Boeing Hijacked by Shareholders and Execs!

Marie Christine Duggan

What the downfall of Boeing tells us about our financialized economy. | Read more »
Are the Rich Countries Being Stupid on Global Vaccines?

Arthur MacEwan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Moral issues aside, are the governments of rich countries being economically stupid by protecting pharmaceutical companies’ vaccine patents? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars

editors’ note Dangerous Monopoly
the short run
cartoon
Making Sense Destroying the Illusions of the Restaurant Industry
up against the wall street journal Taxing Corporations Is Infrastructure
in review Teatro Anónimo, Espíritu

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

July/August 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars