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Can We Remake Finance?  

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?











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Time for Another Reinvention  

Socialist parties emerged as dynamic, powerful forces at the turn of the twentieth century. After decades of decline, can they revive themselves in the twenty-first?







Green Giant  

The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz MIT Press, 2011, 384 pp. Michael J. Graetz’s The End of Energy is a well-documented lamentation over the forty-year failure of the U.S. political …







Keynes Lost and Found  

Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky Public Affairs, 2009, 256 pp., $25.95 Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Economist by Peter Clarke Bloomsbury, 2009, 211 pp., $20 A fierce debate raged …