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Capitalism

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Can Capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. —Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed…

Tax the Land

by Michael Hudson,

Protect Financial Consumers

by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi,

Go into any appliance store in America and look for a toaster with a one-in-five chance of exploding. You won’t find one. But at any mortgage brokerage in the country…

Abolish Stock Options

by Barry C. Lynn,

Realign the Interests of Wall Street

by Joseph E. Stiglitz,

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Art by Ray Bartkus,

On the Economy of the Dead

by John Berger,

From Left Curve: No. 31. Berger’s most recent work of fiction, From A to X, is out this month from Verso. His “Portrait of a Masked Man” appeared in the…

Resistance is surrender

by Slavoj Zizek,

Little-read book

by Harper’s Staff,

Hot air gods

by Curtis White,

Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein,

The new economy of catastrophe