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Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured – But Not His Legacy
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times
Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar.
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Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership
The commitment to charter schools is a coward's way out of facing reality and doing something.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Social Costs
Updates on Obamacare's
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“Pure” Capitalism Is Pure Fantasy
Call it “crony, gangster, casino” or “monopoly” capitalism, its supposedly objectionable features - big government, monopolies, the Federal Reserve, welfare, taxation and labor unions - are intrinsic to any …
Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World
Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the worldu2019s third-largest company in market value.
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Sweatshops Don’t Just Happen – They’re a Policy
It's neoliberal policies, not consumers, which make the sweatshop economy possible.
Speed, Power and the Physics of Finance Capitalism
High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …
Economic Update: Economic Realities
Updates on G8 and Bernanke
Economic Update: Capitalism and Democracy
Updates on pay gaps, Alabama bankruptcy, Minnesota lockout, Greek lockout. Discussions of capitalism and democracy,