Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
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Is The US Hypocritical To Criticize Russian Election Meddling?
Cross-posted at Social Europe. Thomas Carothers has recently written an article in Foreign Affairs, the prestigious elite journal published by
New Issue! Plus: Regional economic disparities and Hillary Clinton's Unfortunate Remarks
Our March/April issue is at the printers (and in e-subscribers' inboxes). (Not a subscriber yet? You can subscribe
Re-theorizing the Welfare State and the Political Economy of Neoliberalism’s War Against It
This paper argues neoliberalism is engaged in a war against the welfare state. At issue are competing views regarding the
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor
Self-help books have no politics. Indeed, in self-help books, there is, to quote Margaret Thatcher out of context, "No
Event: Finding Truth in Police Killings of Young Black Men
Former Dollars & Sense collective Ben Greenberg (who guest edited our March/April 2006 special issue on Hurricane Katrina) is
Worst Case Economics
Cross-posted from our sister blog, Triple Crisis. Frank Ackerman is principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge, Mass., and
Trump and National Neoliberalism, Revisited
Last winter, in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, I wrote an article for Dollars & Sense in which
Dear Dr. Dollar: Is Economic Growth Environmentally Sustainable?
I keep hearing progressive economists talking about environmental sustainability, in particular in the context of the looming catastrophe of global
The Democrats Confront Monopoly
By Polly Cleveland In the 1970’s when I studied microeconomics in grad school, we got to monopoly briefly in