Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz discusses how entrenched inequality and unearned income hurt the economy for everybody:We used to think of there being a trade-off: we could…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz discusses how entrenched inequality and unearned income hurt the economy for everybody:We used to think of there being a trade-off: we could…
Assorted content to end your week.- Henning Meyer interviews Tony Atkinson about the readily-available options to combat inequality - with the first step being to make sure people actually have…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Graham Lowe and Frank Graves examine the state of Canada's labour market, and find a strong desire among workers for an activist government…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot observes that while few people would want to drive animals to extinction directly, we're all too often eager to settle for a…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Bill Moyers writes about the conflict between the wealthy few seeking to preserve their privilege, and the balance of society seeking fairness for…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Alan Freeman is duly appalled by Apple's attempt to throw itself a pity party with the money it's hoarding rather than paying in fair…
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading.- Jared Bernstein comments on the prospect of a labour revival which can boost the prospects of unionized and non-unionized workers alike. And Thomas…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner point out that the struggle for power between labour and capital is far from over, and that the…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Brendan Duke examines the connection between wage growth and worker productivity, and makes the case that the former may lead to the latter:The 1929–1950…
Assorted content to end your week.- Armine Yalnizyan writes that the response to the European Commission's finding that Apple has dodged $20 billion in taxes may tell us all we…
Assorted content to end your week.- Armine Yalnizyan writes that the response to the European Commission's finding that Apple has dodged $20 billion in taxes may tell us all we…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Chris Hamby's brilliant series on the effects of investor-state dispute settlement continues with articles on the shift in power from governments to corporations,…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Chris Hamby's brilliant series on the effects of investor-state dispute settlement continues with articles on the shift in power from governments to corporations,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jim Hightower argues that there's no reason the U.S. can't develop an economic model which leads to shared prosperity - and the ideas are…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jim Hightower argues that there's no reason the U.S. can't develop an economic model which leads to shared prosperity - and the ideas are…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Chris Hamby starts off what looks to be a must-read investigation on the effect of ISDS rules by discussing how they're used to…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Chris Hamby starts off what looks to be a must-read investigation on the effect of ISDS rules by discussing how they're used to…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Erika Hayasaki surveys the developing body of research on how poverty and deprivation affect a child's long-term brain development:Early results show a troubling trend:…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Erika Hayasaki surveys the developing body of research on how poverty and deprivation affect a child's long-term brain development:Early results show a troubling trend:…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Owen Jones discusses the UK's experience with privatized rail as yet another example of how vital services become more costly and worse-run when…