Responses to Fred Block 
Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.”
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Responses to Fred Block
Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City: An Interview with Jenny Chan
China’s rapid economic growth is built on a factory system that relies on hundreds of millions of exploited workers. In the face of repression, those workers have found creative ways to resist.
Another Lost Decade?
Introducing the Spring 2021 special section, Global Economic Disorder.
Behind the Mask
We should be ashamed that there are so many in food lines across the country. Unless dramatic action is taken, the lines are about to get much longer.
Monetary Myth-Busting: An Interview With Stephanie Kelton
The author of The Deficit Myth on why national debt is not an obstacle to progress—and why the government can afford to fund its priorities.
The Road to Renewal
Even in its weakened state, the labor movement remains the largest organizational counterweight to capital and the power of the wealthy.
Introducing our Spring 2019 special section, Labor’s Comeback.
Austerity Agonistes
Austerity: The History of A Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth Oxford University Press, 2013, 304 pp. Debtors’ Prison: The Politics of Austerity versus Possibility by Robert Kuttner Knopf, 2013, 352 pp. More disheartening than the economic catastrophe in the United …
Debt and Deficit Delusions
The United States is confronted with numerous threats to its economic well-being and security. The national debt is not one of them. The real challenges of our time are massive joblessness and the decrepit state of American infrastructure.
The Politics of Inequality
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson Simon and Shuster, 2010, 357 pp. TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, in the midst of economic collapse, it …
The Broken Economy
Two and a half years after the recession started, Wall Street executives are once again collecting billions in bonuses, businesses are flush with cash, but most of America is still hurting. After a growth spurt at the end of last …
It’s Still the Economy
The recession that started in December 2007 was already in its ninth month when a tumultuous ten days in September 2008 shook the world. First the U.S. government nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; then the investment banking house Merrill …
The Economic Collapse
In the fall of 2008, a little more than a year after the Bank for International Settlements (a Switzerland-based organization that fosters cooperation between central banks) warned that “years of loose monetary policy have fuelled a giant credit bubble, leaving …
The ‘Usefully Dangerous’ Economist
This is the story of two economists—John Kenneth Galbraith, who died last year at age ninety-seven, and Paul Krugman, who at fifty-four is in his prime as an economist and a columnist for the New York Times. Like Galbraith, Krugman …
Laid Off in America
The Disposable American by Louis Uchitelle
Robert Heilbroner 1919-2005
“Whatever Dissent‘s problems,” Irving Howe once said to me in the 1980s, “we at least have two of the most literate economists alive.” He was referring to Robert Lekachman and Robert Heilbroner. Bob Heilbroner was a man of prodigious energy. …
