November/December 2024

features

Imagining 50 Years From Now

For our 50th-anniversary issue, we asked five Dollars & Sense supporters to imagine what the U.S. and global economies could look like 50 years from now. Here is what they came up with. The illustrations are by Philadelphia-based artist Michelle Sayles.

By Nancy Folbre, Robert Pollin, David Bacon, Emily Kawano, and Yvonne Yen Liu

Domestic Workers: A New Face of Solidarity

In the United States, Canada, and Mexico domestic workers have similar problems, but have taken different directions in trying to force a change.

David Bacon

From Nixonomics to Trumponomics

The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP

Nick French

Fifty Years of Dollars & Sense

Arthur MacEwan and John Miller

Labor and Monopoly Capital, 50 Years Later

Andrej Markovčič

the regulars

editors’ note | D&S@50
the short run
two cents
cartoon | “We Could Let in More Immigrants”
making sense | Self-Organizing Workers | Milei’s Psycho Shock Therapy
comment | The Demise of the Dollar?
up against the wall street journal | Will the Harris Anti-Price Gouging Plan Gore the Market? Hardly!
in review | The Internet Con, by Cory Doctorow | Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis | Silicon Values, by Jillian York
economy in numbers | Inequality and Poverty in the United States