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
How New Keynesian Economics Betrays Keynes
Classicals, Keynesians, and Bastard Keynesians
Roger Farmer
David Brin: The Ultimate Answer to “Government is Useless”
Does government-funded science play a role in stimulating innovation?
David Brin
Is a Big Change Underway in Global Capitalism?
An interview with prominent short-seller Jim Chanos
Lynn Parramore
Tyler Cowen and Joseph Henrich Talk Economics, Big Brains, Cultural Evolution, and WEIRD People
How culture Is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter
Tyler Cowen
Why Central Banks Should Offer Bank Accounts to Everyone
Central banking disrupted for the 21st century
Nicholas Gruen
Can We Fix Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Brexit?
Fixing markets isn’t enough. We have to actively shape and create them.
Lynn Parramore
Economist Julie Nelson Says Much of Economics is a Sham Science
We undermine our survival if we continue to imagine economics as a ethics-free and care-free sphere
Julie Nelson
Why Economists Don’t Know How to Think about Wealth (or Profits)
Until 2006, they quite literally weren’t playing with a full (accounting) deck. Most still aren’t.
Steve Roth
How to Pay for Universal Basic Income
Universal income can come from universal assets
James K. Boyce, Peter Barnes
The Trump Tax Cut versus Universal Basic Income
UBI solves the fundamental problem of modern capitalism, lack of demand
Tom Streithorst
It Takes a Village of Media, Business, Policy, and Academic Experts to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System
A mix of distorted incentives, ignorance, confusion, and lack of accountability maintain a dangerous financial system
Anat Admati
Why the Invisible Hand from Biology is Better Than the Invisible Hand from Economics
The notion that economics and business are all about competition and self-interest is alluring but wrong
Mark van Vugt
Why Mainstream Economists Are Responsible for Electing Donald Trump
Mainstream economists, globalization, and Trump
David F. Ruccio
Why Laissez-Faire Lovers Are the Real Anti-Capitalists
Time to resurrect an old idea: economic rent
Dustin Mineau
Finance Is Not the Economy
An economy based increasingly on rent extraction by the few and debt buildup by the many is a feudal model
Dirk Bezemer, Michael Hudson
Peter Turchin: Entering the Age of Instability after Trump
Why social instability and political violence is predicted to peak in the 2020s
Peter Turchin
Traditional Economics Can’t Help. We Need to Rethink Growth and Capitalism
Economics and policy for inclusive and sustainable growth
Mariana Mazzucato
The Economy’s Greatest Illness: The Rise of Unproductive Finance
How financial markets no longer support business, and thus, economic growth
Rana Foroohar
Why You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems
The people responsible for national economic policy are economics professors
John T. Harvey
Before Capitalism, Medieval Peasants Got More Vacation Time Than You. Here’s Why.
Go back 200, 300 or 400 years and you find that most people did not work very long hours
Lynn Parramore
Does Saving Cause Lending Cause Investment? (No.)
The idea that household saving funds business investment is both incoherent and empirically wrong.
Steve Roth
Getting Radical Might Be the Most Practical Way to Fix Inequality
Why we need more radical policies so that we don’t just repeat the debt-fueled booms all over again
Lynn Parramore
The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas
The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons can be applied to all groups
David Sloan Wilson
Bad Growth vs Good Growth: How to Protect the Earth and Have a Vibrant, More Equitable Market Economy
How do we weed out the negative and accentuate the positive forms of growth?
Peter Barnes
Why We Should Give Babies Seed Capital to Take Part in the Capitalist System
Baby bonds: a plan for wealth equality conservatives and liberals could love.
Lynn Parramore
