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Ten years ago, the financial crisis washed away faith and trust in economics as a guide to social prosperity. Filling a void is difficult. We are still hard at work. 

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

Expanding, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution

It’s not just Turkey­—from India to Indonesia, external financial liabilities are a looming threat

To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”

In China, the government uses the purses strings of state-owned enterprises to control social unrest

The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income and status. But the deeper problem is that more and more economic activity performs a merely distributive function.

INET Global Commissioner Peter Bofinger breaks down cryptocurrencies, and why they’re actually far from “anonymous”

A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers

State-issued digital money may avoid some pitfalls of cryptocurrency, but it’s no financial panacea

To understand the rise of the League and 5 Star Movement, look at economic indicators

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

Places hit hardest by austerity cuts were more likely to vote for UKIP and Leave

Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy—it exposes how citation rankings really work

Alissa Quart’s new book chronicles the pain of a disgruntled class that could change the country’s political landscape.