Left Hook Economics Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality. John Miller Oct 21, 2026
Left Hook Economics How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy. Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026
Left Hook Economics When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor. Arthur MacEwan Oct 2, 2026
July/August 2024 Assessing Bidenomics Is the Biden administration’s economic policy a break with neoliberal orthodoxy, or more of the same? Nick French Jul 1, 2024
May/June 2024 One Year After the New York Nurses’ Strike, What Comes Next? Chronic short staffing is a common complaint of nurses working in U.S. hospitals—one that reflects a dangerous problem, Nick French May 1, 2024
May/June 2024 (Mostly) Useful Government Numbers The federal government generates millions of economic numbers in thousands of publications every year. Some of these publications can be Frank Stricker, with Illustrations by Kevin Moore May 1, 2024
