Articles

John Kenneth Galbraith noted in 1973 that establishment economics had become the “invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public.” If anything, economists’ embrace of that role has grown stronger since then.

Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.

Hope for mitigating climate catastrophe may not be lost, but the scale of political change needed is no cause for optimism

Adolph Reed, who researches race and politics, warns that “identitarian” politics can conceal the structural inequities of capitalism

Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and the second-most-famous democratic socialist in America sit down together

After Sweden’s elections, a look at how immigration and economics explain a political puzzle

When a small group of companies can dominate a labor market, wages—and workers—suffer

Expanding, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution

How corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends