books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
economics "Productivity" is a perfect example of the pseudscience underpinning economics Cory Doctorow
Business New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation Cory Doctorow
economics We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world's fossil fuel subsidy Cory Doctorow
Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow
economics The rent's less damned high: rents falling in most of America's most expensive cities Cory Doctorow
Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow
scholarship Report from the Fed reveals that "economic growth" is a highly localized phenomena, masking widespread financial desperation Cory Doctorow
corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow
scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow
Business AT&T's dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly Cory Doctorow
videos Watch: Tim Wu debates trustbusting with Tyler Cowen, who just wrote "a love letter" to Big Business Cory Doctorow