New narrative for a new economy
John Cavanagh and Robin Broad write on the new economy movement: If the Occupy movement popularized the call to end extreme inequality, Hurricane Sandy is popularizing the call to rebuild our nation’s...
View ArticleHealth care: where profits warp incentives
Echoing our recent Econ4 statement, Eduardo Porter explains in the New York Times why our healthcare-for-profit system means that Americans pay too much and get too little: From the high administrative...
View ArticleThe student debt trap and inequality in America
Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz writes: In 2010, student debt, now $1 trillion, exceeded credit-card debt for the first time. Student debt can almost never be wiped out, even in bankruptcy. A parent who...
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Capitalism Unmasked
Capitalism Unmasked, a new eBook edited by Lynn Parramore, was produced in a partnership between AlterNet and Econ4 to expose the myths of unbridled capitalism and show the way to a better future. You...
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Family values?
Stephanie Coontz writes in the Times on family-unfriendly work-life policies: We must stop seeing work-family policy as a women’s issue and start seeing it as a human rights issue. Read more here.
View ArticleThe tilted playing field
For many Americans, Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz writes, the dream of upward mobility is being subverted by the reality of unequal opportunity: Probably the most important reason for lack of equality of...
View ArticleWealth inequality in America: seeing reality
Check out the differences between (i) what 9 out of 10 Americans think is the ideal degree of wealth inequality; (ii) what they think wealth inequality really is; and (iii) what it really is. Source:...
View ArticleDefend Social Security, or else
Check it out, kids: Source: http://www.justscrapthecap.com/
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Straight talk about the next American revolution
Advance praise for What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green, April 2013), by Econ4′s Gar Alperovitz: “Gar Alperovitz’s new book is so plain-spoken and...
View ArticleWho's got the world's wealth?
The world’s richest 300 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3 billion: Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSxzjyMNpU
View ArticleChomsky on student debt
From a wide-ranging interview with Noam Chomsky: [O]ne of the main problems for students today — a huge problem — is sky-rocketing tuitions. Why do we have tuitions that are completely out-of-line...
View ArticleJust do the math
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes: The means of most Americans haven’t kept up with what the economy could and should provide. The economy is twice as large as it was three decades ago, and...
View ArticleBig farm tribute
James Stewart writes in The Times about the latest economic travesty to come out of the U.S. House of Representatives: It’s hard to imagine a more widely reviled piece of legislation than the nearly $1...
View ArticleBankrupt politics hits Detroit
Robert Reich breaks down the local politics behind the Detroit bankruptcy: Much in modern America depends on where you draw boundaries, and who’s inside and who’s outside. Who is included in the social...
View ArticleWhy GDP fails to measure economic well-being
A primer on the defects of GDP as a measure of economic well-being, from Econ4′s James Boyce: Source: The Real News Network.
View ArticleTop dogs and low lifes
Check out this new research on the psychology of privilege and greed (or what some economists dub “rational behavior”): Source: PBS News Hour.
View ArticleGreed today, gone tomorrow
Lynn Parramore, writing for Alternet, explains why investment in innovation has declined in America: There’s a motto on Wall Street: “I.B.G.-Y.B.G.” or “I’ll Be Gone, You’ll Be Gone.” As long as you’re...
View ArticleTime for new code
Peter Buffett, co-chair of the NoVo Foundation, writing in the Times on the limits of philanthropy: As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the...
View ArticleEconomy malfunction
Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz doesn’t mince words: Let us be clear: our economy is not working the way a well working economy should. We have vast unmet needs, but idle workers and machines. We have...
View ArticleThe free market myth
Robert Reich peels away the layers of an ideological onion: One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right (and its fathomless think tanks and media outlets) is that the “free...
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