America Has the Highly Combustible Economy It Deserves
Dec 18, 2018 When you build an entire system around the stock market's performance, these are the erratic, frequently disastrous results.
Jair Bolsonaro’s Victory in Brazil Carries a Grave Warning for the West
Oct 29, 2018 Liberals have chosen neofascism over mild social democracy. They simply can't be trusted, writes Alex Hocchuli in The Baffler.
Prognosis: America 2018
Feb 13, 2018 Knowledge, organized and available to all motivated voters, can win out. Then we can get our country back.
Capitalism: The Nightmare
Sep 20, 2017 As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future."
‘Let Markets Rule Us’
May 26, 2014 An old, creepy recording shows the Milton Friedman Choir singing that corporations are society's saviors, that rule and decision making are best left to the so-called free market, and that other moral considerations for the business class should be absolutely gotten rid of.
Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
Mar 3, 2014 An Oxford scholar warns that our outmoded economic model is a "warrant for inflicting pain" first on the poor and minorities and eventually on most of society .
Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind
Jun 15, 2013 In a late 2012 PBS series called "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," the lauded New York Times columnist and professional flake "glosses" the harmful "utopian vision" of free-market globalization sold to Americans in a 1980 television broadcast by neoliberal economist Milton Friedman, Anne Elizabeth Moore writes in The Baffler.In an October PBS series, the lauded New York Times columnist and professional flake "glossed" Milton Friedman's harmful and dishonest "utopian vision" of free-market globalization.
Michael Hudson Remembers What Margaret Thatcher Did
Apr 9, 2013 The deceased prime minister's 11-year rule over the U.K. "was historic mainly by posing the conundrum that has shaped neoliberal politics since 1980: How can governments nurture and endow financial kleptocrats" with the consent of the people?
The Anti-Economist: Misleading American History
Jan 29, 2013 By ignoring the historic role government played in enabling economic growth, the prevailing myths about how the U.S. became prosperous allow lawmakers, officials and lobbyists to craft policies that prevent the majority of Americans from taking their rightful share of the national wealth, Jeff Madrick writes in Harper’s Magazine.
‘NOVA’: Mind Over Money
Mar 17, 2012 Groundbreaking research in behavioral economics may pose the greatest academic threat ever to free-market theory, suggesting that emotions linked to brain chemistry -- not rational self-interest -- play a deciding role in how we spend, save and invest.Groundbreaking research in behavioral economics suggests that emotions linked to brain chemistry—not rational self-interest—play a deciding role in how we spend, save and invest.
