How Ideologues Use Grade-School Economics to Distort Minimum Wage Debates
Introductory economics can be more misleading than it is helpful.
James Kwak
Why Society’s Biggest Freeloaders are at the Top
No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there.
Rutger Bregman
How Land Disappeared from Economic Theory
For classical economists, it was a factor of production, and the source of “rent.”
Josh Ryan-Collins
How Low-Paying Jobs and Weak Safety Nets Reduce Innovation and Productivity
Given the structure of our social safety net, automation tends to increase poverty and inequality rather than unemployment
Ryan Avent
The Conversation About Basic Income is a Mess. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
Its time we treat UBI as the messy fabric that it is.
Charlie Young
Economist Dierdre McCloskey Promotes False Math About Inequality and Redistribution
It takes “alternative math” to claim that redistribution Is futile.
Adam M. Finkel
Why Common Ownership Is a Route to Social Transformation
The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in.
George Monbiot
New Economics Says Prosperity Doesn’t Trickle Down. It Comes from the Middle-Out
Properly understood, the middle class is the source of all growth and prosperity in a modern technological economy.
Nick Hanauer, David Rolf
The Ideology of Exponential Growth Devours and Corrupts
There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth.
David Heinemeier Hansson
The Trump Presidency: An Embarrassment for Those Who Believe in the Market
After two months, it is clear that the Trump industrial policy will be pro-business, not pro-market.
Luigi Zingales
Neoliberalism Was Supposed to Make Us Richer: Three Reasons Why It Didn’t
How neoliberalism contributed to the productivity slowdown
Chris Dillow
How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
Increasingly, businesses don’t generate profits. They generate capital gains. It’s fiendishly clever.
Steve Roth
How a Ruthless Network of Super-Rich Ideologues Killed Choice and Destroyed People’s Faith in Politics
Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph
George Monbiot
They Just Get Bigger: How Corporate Mergers Strangle the Economy
Corporate mergers kill competition and cause economic stagnation
Jordan Brennan
Universal Basic Income Accelerates Innovation by Reducing Our Fear of Failure
Failure is not an option. Failure is the goal. And fear of failure is the enemy.
Scott Santens
What in the Heck Is “Money Printing,” Anyway?
People — especially economists — use this term every which way from Sunday.
Steve Roth
The Science of Flow Says Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse
Circulation represents the lifeblood of all flow-systems, be they economies, ecosystems, or living organisms.
Sally Goerner
Business School’s Worst Idea: Why the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Theory Is Bogus
Short-termism, underinvestment, and a preoccupation with image management.
Yves Smith
It’s Time for New Economic Thinking Based on the Best Science Available, Not Ideology
A new narrative for a complex age
Eric Beinhocker
The Science Is In: Greater Equality Makes Societies Healthier and Richer
What matters is where we stand in relation to others in our own society.
Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
What Is Radical Economics? (Hint: It’s Not Neoliberal or Marxist)
Transformation doesn’t require an alternative “social economy,” because the economy we have is already social. We just need to recognize and act on that fact.
Julie Nelson
How Science Can Decode the Laws of History and Predict US Political Violence
Revolution and war: is it all just a little bit of history repeating?
Peter Turchin
Why the Pursuit of Shareholder Value Kills Innovation
Is innovation against the interests of the shareholder-owned firm?
Chris Dillow
Rapid Money Supply Growth Does Not Cause Inflation
Neither do rapid growth in government debt, declining interest rates, or rapid Increases in a central bank’s balance sheet
Richard Vague
Solving the Crisis of Extractive Capitalism
A new post-capitalist ecosystem of value creation
Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis
How to Solve the Trump-Brexit Syndrome: Fix Economics
Why policymakers need to engage in a fundamental rethinking of capitalism.
Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato
Beyond Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin a misguided information technology tool here to create more problems than it solves?
Vasilis Kostakis, Chris Giotitsas
How Do Americans Get Rich? (And Stay Rich?)
Income inequality is rampant, and rising. But it’s not even close to the whole story.
Steve Roth
The Real “Takers” in America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich
Productive Americans of center, left and right, unite!
Michael Lind
The Basic Income and Job Guarantee are Complementary, not Opposing Policies
Let’s see what happens when everyone has some cash on hand
Brad Voracek
