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The depth of the U.S. securities market helps ensure dollar hegemony

James K. Galbraith responds on the U.S. dollar system

New mandates must beget new organizing

Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.

How can we develop a deeper, more human and multifaceted understanding of the past?

An analysis of gun lobby contributions to Republicans and Democrats

Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this ministerial than is generally known.

Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation

James M. Buchanan’s defenders argue he was not racist because of his ties with the anti-apartheid economist W.H. Hutt, but this defense fails miserably

An obituary for Axel Leijunhufvud (Sept 6, 1933 - May 5, 2022)

Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work.

In a harrowing new book, scholar Laura Katz Olson pulls back the curtain on a shadowy Wall Street threat that is taking over health care companies – and preying on human lives.

The multipolar financial world is here. The United States can survive it – but only with major political and economic changes at home. It’s time to start thinking about what those need to be.

As women’s rights to make reproductive choices come under assault, historian John M. Riddle argues that abortion has been far more essential to human history than you might imagine.

Contrary to the neoclassical loanable funds theory, historical bond yields show Keynes was right that “convictions” anchor long-term interest rates