When I lived in New Haven (1980/81) one of my first questions related to what appeared to be an excess supply of eating establishments. My f...

Georges Sorel thought he had made a 'happy choice' with his use of the term 'myth.' But he soon was disabused of that illusi...

The Tax Foundation explains a proposal from the House Republicans: The GOP’s plan would alter the corporate income tax in five major ways:...

Matt Gardner of Tax Justice expresses the general frustration of progressives of how much in tax giveaways had to be shelled out to save ju...

I was loving the latest from Jared Bernstein until I got to this passage: I do know that we must start by lowering our economically large,...

Published in September 1947, Whither Solid South? A Study in Politics and Race Relations , by Charles Wallace Collins, "became both man...

By Fred Moseley I am a Marxist economist (Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College) and I appreciate Branko  Milanovic's  open...

I would encourage all of you to read Fred Moseley’s case for the labor theory of value and the problems he has with Branko Milanovic’s inte...

Brad DeLong challenges Donald Trump on his claims regarding trade policy: In the United States 24% of nonfarm workers were manufacturing w...

The election was two weeks ago today, and two weeks is roughly the period of short-term memory, the time in which most people can remember w...

Bridget Phillipson is the U.K. Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South. "You're not fit to be prime minister and you’ve got to...

Jay W. Forrester has died at age 98, the father of systems dynamics.  He arrived at the MIT to study electrical engineering in 1939 and duri...

Brad Plumer has a must read discussion on Trump’s plans for infrastructure: What Trump has right now is an idiosyncratic proposal for Cong...

Race, Presidential Politics, and the Winner-Take-All Rule (links) Strom Thurmond and the "Dixiecrat" Campaign of 1948 The F...

The following excerpt from " The Illegitimate President: Minority Vote Dilution and the Electoral College, " by Matthew M. Hoffman...