Socialism Is No Longer a Dirty Word
André Schiffrin
The case for public ownership.
Economics
Subsections:
2008
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We're All Minskyites Now
Robert Pollin
Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.
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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.
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Main Street Marches on Wall Street
Lucas Mann : Activism & Organizing
As economic turmoil continues over the proposed bailout plan, activists put pressure on Congress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
2007
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The Dialectics of Revolution... Uh, Recycling
Alexander Cockburn : Environment
Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.
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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.
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Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'
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.
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Perishable Goods
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
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Inflation's Undertow
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.
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Robert Engler
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
2006
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Galbraith Remembered
At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man.
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J.K. Galbraith and the Forks in the Road
Alexander Cockburn : U.S. Economy
While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
: History
Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
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Freezing Their Assets
Nicholas von Hoffman : Science
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.
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