The Guardian | Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse. The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world rather than the “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”, according...
Economic Policy Institute | The intertwining of racial hierarchies and economic policy as a historical pattern has paved the way for vast inequality: by sowing distrust of government, dismantling institutions aimed at equity, and targeting nonwhite communities, political forces weaken cross-racial w...
CEPR | There have long been concerns that US Supreme Court decisions increasingly favour economic elites. This column analyses 1,782 cases from 1953 to 2022 to examine how justices’ rulings directly shift economic resources between the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. In the 1950s, Democratic- and Republican-appo...
L’Osservatore Romano | There is a type of work that continues to be unrecognized as such. It is the work of caring, of relationships, of daily organisation that ensures the survival of families and the cohesion of communities, that contributes to GDP, and that weighs disproportionately on women. It...
Democracy Project NYU Law | Economic inequality and the weakening of collective institutions have hollowed out the ability of everyday people to shape political life and counterbalance concentrated wealth. With membership organizations dwindling and economic power translating ever more directly into...
Public Services International | Groundbreaking research shows taxing multinational profits where they are generated at a 25% minimum could expand global public revenues by over $700 billion per year: enough to end extreme poverty ten times over.
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