The Indypendent
Bennett Baumer
Will even capitalism buckle to the climate crisis? Economist Branko Milanovic weights in.
A Whole World to Grain: The Hidden History of Wheat
How grain production and trade have affected the global economy and shaped the modern world.
People on the left should read more economics and business media. Here are three recently released books to start with.
The Story of Hasidic Vilyamsburg
A new book tells the story of one of Brooklyn’s most distinctive communities.
In a 2019 campaign video, Bernie Sanders appeared hugging a crying single mother outside her hardscrabble trailer in the…
Capitalism: Isolated, Sick and Down
The post-Great Recession expansion, the longest bull market in U.S. history, has met the matador. For the second time…
Power Up: A History of Energy and the People Behind It
In the late 19th century, horses hauled wood culled from North America’s great forests in order to heat and…
New Yorkers dislike many things. Subway delays. That smell during summer. But what New Yorkers really dislike is real-estate…
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‘Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
‘And The Weak Suffer What They Must?’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Nation Books, 2016