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With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world

Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development

As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.

By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution

There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.

Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth

How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found

The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now

For all the talk of Modern Monetary Theory representing a brave new frontier, it is easy to forget that the United States has gone down this road before, when the US Federal Reserve financed the war effort in the 1940s. Then, as now, the question is not about government debt, but about the debt’s purpose and justification.

A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism

One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t

Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.