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"Free-Market" Outcomes Are Not Fair--and Not Free
True or false?: “Since 1980, the U.S. government has reduced its intervention in the U.S. economy, which has become much more of a free market. Conservatives embrace this outcome, while progressives object to it.” | Read more »
Highway Robbery
How “public-private parternships” extract private profit from public infrastructure projects. | Read more »
Dear Dr. Dollar: Structural Adjustment, Here and There
Dear Dr. Dollar: What are the similarities and differences between structural adjustment in the rest of the world/Third World and structural adjustment in the United States? | Read more »
The Big Lie About the "Entitlement State"
Is New York Times columnist David Brooks right that growth in “entitlements”—government programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—“will bankrupt the country”? | Read more »
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Europe and the Global Crisis
- By Jayati Ghosh
- November/December 2012
- Issue 303
Austerity policies are driving the eurozone to the brink, and threatening a new global downturn. |
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Higher Education as a Workplace
- By Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
- November/December 2012
- Issue 303
As higher education is corporatized and privatized,
campus labor is increasingly casualized. |
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