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A Deeply Integrated Europe

The euro and its discontents

by Emmanuel Todd, James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick,

How Germany Reconquered Europe

The euro and its discontents

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

[The Anti-Economist]

Change in the Air

When Bill de Blasio won the New York City mayoral election with 73 percent of the vote, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the start of something big. For more…

by Jeff Madrick,

How Germany Reconquered Europe

The euro and its discontents

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Real Lost Generation

In late August, I traveled with colleagues from the Roosevelt Institute in New York to New Orleans, where we had invited a panel of community organizers to join us in…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Future Progressive

In his classic book On Liberty, the nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill urged that man strive to become “a progressive being.” Mill defined progressivism as the cultivation of individuality;…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Problem Number One

This spring, Newark mayor Cory Booker, then considering a run for U.S. Senate, came to my office along with members of his staff to discuss national economic issues. We spent…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Saving Your Children from a Harvard Education

In 1972, the economics department at Harvard denied tenure to the leftist professor Samuel Bowles. Responding to the decision in the Harvard Crimson, Bowles asserted that he had been passed…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Toward Reglobalization

It’s rare, in economics as in life, to get a second chance. Though economists are constantly learning lessons from past mistakes, seldom are there obvious opportunities to apply them. The…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Scarlet Debtor

Debt forgiveness is one of the most important innovations of modern capitalism, but it is a fairly recent one. Though the Constitution gives Congress explicit authority to enact “uniform Laws…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Education Is Not the Answer

Last spring I sat on a panel convened to discuss the publication of The Occupy Handbook, a collection of essays in which a number of prominent economists addressed issues raised…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Age of Cruelty

Following heavy Democratic losses in the 2010 congressional elections, Barack Obama announced that he was reading a biography of Ronald Reagan to see how the great man had handled his…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

A Bit of Good News

It’s dangerous to express optimism about the economy these days. Europe’s financial markets remain fragile. China, which supports much of the world’s economy through imports, is too dependent on highly…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Day of Greed

A quick scan for a deadly sin

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

We Need a Shadow CBO

The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office???s long-term budget projections

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

A Republican Magic Trick

Deficit misdirection

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Fall and Rise of Occupy Wall Street

A year and a half after the takeover of Zuccotti Park there exists a widespread conviction that Occupy Wall Street ultimately failed, and that it did so for lack of…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Economic Understatement of the Union

If the president wants the public???s support, he should be making a forceful case for spending

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Revised History

Last month, Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, the documentary series the director made with historian Peter Kuznick, completed its ten-episode run on Showtime. Those who unthinkingly dismiss…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Does America Need Jack Lew?

The incoming treasury secretary's positions on regulation and the deficit offer cause for concern

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

America Is Having the Wrong Fiscal Argument

The question should be whether to cut the deficit right now, not how

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Trading for Jobs

As President Obama begins his second term, our gross domestic product is in recovery mode. But the jobs market is still in a Great Recession. Unemployment hovers stubbornly around 8…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Fed’s Historic Week

The Federal Reserve makes jobs a priority at last

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Half Empty

The American dream has never been the rags-to-riches fable of the Horatio Alger stories. But there once was a real American dream, and it went like this: If you work…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Oliver Stone’s Alternate States

On Stone???s compulsive???and necessary???historical revisions

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Coming Fiscal Bluffs

Will President Obama stand tough in budget negotiations?

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Entitlement Crisis That Isn’t

At September’s Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton roused his party when he said that Republicans, having left Barack Obama with a “total mess,” were now complaining that the president hasn’t…

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

Why Jack Welch Knows About Changing Numbers

As CEO of General Electric, Welch was a master of earnings enhancement.

by Jeff Madrick,

[The Anti-Economist]

The Austerity Myth

As economic adversity continues to spread, from Athens to Madrid, London to the Beltway, austerity has become a most dangerous idea. What now dominates the world is the popular theory…

by Jeff Madrick,

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