Growth Sputters to a Crawl
The Rise and Fall of American Growth By Robert J. Gordon Princeton University Press 2016 Darkness defined the American…
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The Red Decade: Art with a Gritty Heart
The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940 NYU Grey Art Gallery Through April 4 The 1930s…
In his 1873 afterword to the second German edition of Das Kapital, Karl Marx commented on how the conquest…
Stiglitz and the WEF: Making the Connection between Climate Change and Economics
The World Economic Forum wrapped up in Davos this weekend. Why is the WEF vital for climate change? As…
The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, and the Democrats Punt
This article originally appeared on Common Dreams, via RobertReich.org. The super-rich got even wealthier this year, and yet most…
This article originally appeared on Truthout.org. “Most immigrants are economic refugees,” Bob Kee explained as we drove across the…
Campaign to Disinvest From Chase Bank Underway
Thanks to Reverend Billy and his Church of Life After Shopping we have another reason to move our money…
Feminomics: Women Reformers Motivated by a No Tolerance Rule
From an economic standpoint, will 2010 be the year of the woman? As part of the Roosevelt Institute‘s ongoing…
(This article originally appeared at http://counterpunch.org/macaray11022009.html) Even people who genuinely admire the United States say they are astonished by…
