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.
Issue 212
5 articles
Taking Aim at Child Slavery
If the Persian-style carpets at your local store do not have Rugmark's signature stamp of a smiling
Let's Close the CEO Salary Loophole
Executive salaries are like Charlie Chaplin's classic scene in The Great Dictator. Mussolini and Hitler are sitting in
The Che Marketing Moment
Revolutionary governments rarely enjoy personnel with advanced training, technical expertise or policy-making experience in the positions normally requiring them.
Active Culture
Senior Summer This year, some of the young activists in the Union Summer program of the AFL-CIO will work
The Albanian House of Cards
In early 1993 a journalist with the Albanian Economic Tribune visited Albania's Finance Ministry to collect figures on