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Economic policy

Shopping for Sweat

The human cost of a two-dollar T-shirt

For decades, America’s economics and business elites have been confidently assuring their countrymen that the alarming decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector was nothing to worry about. Dying industries and…

To each according to his greed

by Slavoj Zizek,

The Economics of Occupation

by Bernard Avishai,

Barack Hoover Obama

by Kevin Baker,

The best and the brightest blow it again

The $10 trillion hangover

by Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz,

Paying the price for eight years of Bush

By the rivers of Babylon

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Utopia falls

by John Gray,

Localize

by Bill McKibben,

Reindustrialize

by Eric Janszen,

Plan

by James K. Galbraith,

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…

Economic policy

Shopping for Sweat

Up from Globalism

To each according to his greed

The Economics of Occupation

Barack Hoover Obama

The $10 trillion hangover

By the rivers of Babylon

Utopia falls

Localize

Reindustrialize

Plan

Debug

Economic policy

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Shopping for Sweat

Up from Globalism

To each according to his greed

The Economics of Occupation

Barack Hoover Obama

The $10 trillion hangover

By the rivers of Babylon

Utopia falls

Localize

Reindustrialize

Plan

November 2008

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