Economics

Subsections:

2009

A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?

Sarah Stodola : Feminism & Women

The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
Meltdown: Economic Collapse and Recovery

Nation Audio

A panel discussion on the economic meltdown with Joseph Stiglitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Jeff Madrick and Christopher Hayes.
No Oversight: Fed Gives Away Trillions

American News Project

Since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has expanded by $1.2 trillion with little oversight.
Crash Landings

Bernard Avishai : Non-Fiction

Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.

Socialism Is No Longer a Dirty Word

André Schiffrin

The case for public ownership.
We're All Minskyites Now

Robert Pollin

Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.
The Communist Manifesto Turns 160

Barbara Ehrenreich : History

As Karl Marx's opus marks a big birthday, capitalism seems willing to mark the occasion by dropping dead.
Main Street Marches on Wall Street

Lucas Mann : Activism & Organizing

As economic turmoil continues over the proposed bailout plan, activists put pressure on Congress.
Immigration Reform and Economic Justice

Center For Emerging Media : Migration & Immigration

Nation writers Bob Moser and Roberto Lovato discuss how Democrats can best pursue economic reform and a better immigration policy.
Drawing Your Last Breath Hungry

Allan Nairn : Myanmar (Burma)

We can blame the Burmese government for the unfolding tragedy in the wake of the cyclone. We can also blame ourselves.
Lewis Black in 'No Free Lunch'

Noise Pop Industries : Labor

Comedian Lewis Black (The Daily Show) unleashes a rant against the greed of "Buyout Barons.
The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck

Nancy Cleeland : U.S. Economy

Feeling squeezed? It's official: if you're not in management, the value of your paycheck is dropping at an alarming rate.

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.