Truthout
Economy
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If It Takes Blocking a Bank Door With Your Body to Keep Your Home, Would You Do It?
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener puts faces to the facts of the subprime mortgage crisis; specifically the faces of black Americans, who are bearing the brunt of the …
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In The Absence of Heroes
He was a child of enormous privilege, the son of a filthy-rich war-profiteer industrialist, but he became one of us.
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Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?
The economic position of African Americans relative to White Americans has not improved over the last 40 years.
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In Europe, a Failing Orthodoxy Goes Unchallenged
Paul Krugman: The Netherlands has the kind of Grand Bargain that The Washington Post editorial page dreams of.
Economic Update: Economics and Health
Update on intern's death in London, austerity and suicide, over-prescribing anti-depressants, cutting health benefits, and laying off mortgage workers at Wells Fargo.
Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism
We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world.
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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …
Pursuing Profits – or Power?
The idea that firms single-mindedly maximize profits is an axiom of faith of neoclassical Econ 101, but alternative theories have a long history in the broader profession.
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Why Should We All Be Considered “Equal”?
Moral status or dignity is not tied to a narrow quality or capacity such as medical, mathematical or linguistic knowledge.
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Where’s the Outrage Over Our Failed Health Care System?
What we are witnessing is a massive failure of public policy that is not permitted in any other wealthy country.