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Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top

William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future

As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.

It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future

If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.

The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.

If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.

Establishing legal responsibility in the fissured workplace

Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.

A report from the Commission on Global Economic Transformation’s meeting in West Africa

Some Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Friendship and Appreciation

Freeing ourselves from reliance on fossil fuels is not only good for the planet and future generations. It also saves lives here and now, not just in the far future.

Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite.

Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly

How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages