The Dialectics of Revolution... Uh, Recycling

Alexander Cockburn : Environment

Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.

VideoNation: The Cost of War

Katrina vanden Heuvel : War & Peace

Democratic candidates need to make the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'

Greg Grandin : Venezuela

As Venezuela and the rest of Latin America repair the damage of two decades of free-market orthodoxy, John Kenneth Galbraith is a major inspiration.

Perishable Goods

Robin Blackburn : Non-Fiction

A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.

Inflation's Undertow

Nicholas von Hoffman

Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.

Robert Engler

: Nation History

Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.

Galbraith Remembered

Richard Parker

At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man.

J.K. Galbraith and the Forks in the Road

Alexander Cockburn : U.S. Economy

While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.

John Kenneth Galbraith

: History

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.

Freezing Their Assets

Nicholas von Hoffman : Science

Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.

Defunct Economists

William Greider : China