No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity
Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.
Polly Cleveland
22 articles
Review of "These Walls Between Us," by Wendy Sanford
Review of: These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class, by Wendy Sanford Review by Polly
The Black-White Wage Gap: How Inequality and Monopoly Amplify Racial Discrimination
By Polly Cleveland Following the police killing of George Floyd last year, Howard University professor William Spriggs wrote, “Is now
Taxing More from the Rich Is Difficult. This Is How to Do It.
By Polly Cleveland In the March 1 UK Prospect, economist James Galbraith offers the Brits, and us, two proposals to
Polly Cleveland on Monopoly on The Analysis
D&S board member and frequent author Polly Cleveland was interviewed by Paul Jay of The Analysis (formerly of
Review of Break ‘Em Up, by Zephyr Teachout
Review of Break ‘Em Up by Zephyr Teachout By Polly Cleveland For over twelve years I backed up our three
Review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No"
By Polly Cleveland These days the major media fill with denunciations of populists. They are the ignorant people who rally
Richard Vague on Credit Expansion and Land Speculation
Frequent D&S author Polly Cleveland interviewed Richard Vague last week (more info here and here); here is the
Review of Matthew Desmond's Evicted
By Polly Cleveland Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City gives us a dramatic closeup of
Review of Strong Towns
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperityby Charles L. Marohn, Jr Review by Polly Cleveland Along with the
The Big Bean Bubble
By Polly Cleveland In my last post, I wrote how, in A Brief History of Doom, Richard Vague shows how
Review: A Brief History of Doom
By Polly Cleveland Review of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises, by Richard Vague A
From Germany to America: A Dialog on Inequality
By Polly Cleveland At a coffee break between sessions at the annual History of Economics Society meeting, I chatted with