Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

John Miller Oct 20, 2025

November/December 2025

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

Cambridge Controversy

2 articles

D&S BLOG

Live-Blogging Piketty: Reading Pt. II

Capital in the Twenty-First Century Part II Part II of Capital in the Twenty-First Century focuses on the functional distribution

Steven Pressman May 21, 2014

D&S BLOG

Live-Blogging Piketty: Review of Reviews, Pt. 3

My last post summarized the positive reviews of Piketty and focused on some of the best of these. This post

Steven Pressman May 12, 2014