Economy

Paul Krugman: How can it possibly make sense to condemn vast numbers of willing workers to unemployment?

James Kwak: Nietzsche would no doubt be horrified by most aspects of contemporary American society, but that might give him some comfort.

Updates on corporate globalization, Philly schools, paid vacation law(?), the Cadillac Tax. Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on labor, unions and the left. Responses to listeners on higher ed economics …

Paul Krugman: We've entered a looking-glass world in which virtue is vice and prudence is folly, and in which doing the responsible thing is a recipe for economic failure.

Michael Winship: When did we stop being citizens and become merely consumers?

Whatever their justification, the shocking fact is that the average CEO in 2012 earned 354 times more than the average worker.

Republicans say fixing our infrastructure is just u201cmore government spending.u201d

Paul Krugman: The problem with Ireland's gross national product accounting is bigger than realized.

Is it possible that the fight against Monsanto could be a tipping point in the battle against corporate greed?

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. But it's actually much worse.