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Economy
Getting Serious About Teaching Economics to Boost Developing Countries, Not Just the Big Guys
Overhauling the free market university curriculum must go further than addressing inequality.
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The Spanish Town Where People Come Before Profit
While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
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Why Does Argentina Not Simply Default Again?
Constructing authentic economic sovereignty will require a number of sacrifices that Argentina's government does not appear to be willing or able to make.
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Lana Del Rey: Why a Death-Obsessed Pop Siren Is Perfect for Late-Stage Capitalist America
Del Rey is pushing the envelope, and here's the message: America is a rotting corpse.
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No One Expects a Monty Python Fourth of July
The US and the UK may yet be an ocean apart and separated by a common language but we share a bond of vast wealth at the very top …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Eight Years of Bush Cost Us Trillions of Dollars, and More
Eight years under George W. Bush cost us about $6.6 trillion dollars, and more.
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Climate Policy as Wealth Creation
A cap and dividend policy would embody the principle that we all own the earth's resources in equal and common measure.
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An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?
The empire as basket case.
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Fun Accounting and the Export-Import Bank
The establishment types in Washington have become really worried in recent weeks because one of their major troughs, the Export-Import Bank, may not be reauthorized by Congress.
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The State of Runaway CEO Pay Resistance
Since Congress is sitting on its hands, progress on reining in executive over-compensation is cropping up elsewhere.