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

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

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

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

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D&S BLOG

A round-up of some of the best things I've seen on the battle so far between Clinton and

D&S Admin Feb 17, 2016

D&S BLOG

Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where

D&S Admin Oct 6, 2015

D&S BLOG

Here are today's topics, in no particular order: (1) Warren Buffett, the Greedy Grandfather of Omaha: Joe Nocera

D&S Admin Apr 9, 2015