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.
September/October 2010
These are all the articles from the September/October 2010 issue that have been posted online. To see the full table of contents for this issue, go to https://www.dollarsandsense.org/issue-290/
5 articles
The Fall and Rise of Hotel Worker Unionism
A review of Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes A Movement by Julius Getman (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010).
Same Output + Fewer Hours = Economic Crisis?
Today's economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure.
We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
Clean-energy investment would promote job growth for a wide swath of the U.S. workforce.
Why the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Many times I have read (in writings by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, for example) or