The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
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A dark night, a mysterious dame, and a gumshoe looking for clues in the case of the vanishing wages
From Jared Bernstein's May 7 op ed in the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/
The Wealth of Nations, Wolf on Jacobs, Krugman on Warsh
By Polly Cleveland Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, calls Jane Jacobs, who died last week, "a self-educated
Jane Jacobs and John Kenneth Galbraith
Last week was a grim one for my apartment's non-fiction shelves—the two authors whose complete works,
May Day: The Workers’ Day!
An "Econ-Atrocity" from the Center for Popular Economics By Gerald Friedman, CPE Staff Economist May 1, 2006
Marxian Class Analysis and Economics
Class analysis predates economics. Long before modern economics emerged, ancient Greek thinkers, for example, analyzed their society by classifying people
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Insider's View
Should compliance with the law fall under the rubric of CSR?
Legalizing Human Trafficking
WTO negotiations threaten to worsen the lot of migrant workers worldwide.
Measuring the Full Impact of Minimum and Living Wage Laws
Workers who were earning less than the new wage floor are not the only ones who benefit from a higher minimum wage.
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