Is Big Government Bad for Freedom, Civil Society, and Happiness?
The experience from the world’s affluent democratic countries suggests that, at least so far, the answer is no.
Lane Kenworthy
Why Economists Have to Embrace Complexity to Avoid Disaster
Microeconomics, macroeconomics and complexity
Steve Keen
Hayek Meets Information Theory. And Fails.
Modern economic theories of prices-as-information are seventy years out of date.
Jason Smith
The Future of Work, Robotization, and Capitalism’s Ability to Generate Useless Jobs
The value of your work should not be determined by your paycheck.
Rutger Bregman
How to Resolve Fights over Reclining Airplane Seats: Use Behavioral Economics
An investigation into the economics of reclining.
Christopher Buccafusco
Seven Ways to Transform 21st-Century Economics — and Economists
Economics matters enormously for the future, but its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date.
Kate Raworth
Quality of Government, Not Size, Is the Key to Freedom and Prosperity
As far as human freedom goes, the quality of government dominates the statistical relationship.
Ed Dolan
Building the Public Goods of the Twenty-First Century
Digital public goods in the age of the data revolution
Nicholas Gruen
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
The U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds
Lynn Parramore
The Fading American Dream: Declining Mobility and Increasing Inequality
Absolute mobility has declined sharply in US because of the growth in inequality
Raj Chetty
They Go Together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government
Countries with larger government sectors tend to have more personal freedom
Ed Dolan
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
