The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

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Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

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Water, Power, and Environmental Destruction

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the short run

comment | Catching the Value Capture Bus

making sense | Mamdani’s Municipal Socialist Inheritance

up against the wall street journal | Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

in review | Citizen Marx, by Bruno Leipold

economy in narrative | Hello Gig Economy, Goodbye Skills

economy in numbers | The Real Problem with the BLS