J. D. Connor analyzes how cultural shifts in the relationship between movies and money made James Cameron’s initial record-breaking blockbuster “Avatar” somewhat forgettable while the Disney marketing machine is now going to try to reinvent the franchise...

Writer Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn interview Adrienne Buller, author of “The Value of a Whale.”...

Martijn Konings discusses implications of government bailouts within the neoliberal order and potential futures for the post-bailout state....

In “Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy,” a group of political economists use a single and precise metaphor — photosynthesis — to bring the broad social consequences of the pandemic into focus....

Susan Blumberg-Kason puts into conversation two books about the intertwined US-Chinese film industries, Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” and Karen Ma’s “China’s Millennial Digital Generation.”...

Dennis Hogan considers Charlie Eaton’s “Bankers in the Ivory Tower”...

Lukas Moe considers the recent trend of “quit lit” and the bleak economic prospects of academia....

What Adam Smith can — and can’t — tell us about the invisible labor we do every day....

The numbers that once allowed economists to lord it over the other social sciences have become privatized, monopolized by the few....

Rachel Teukolsky on the joys and shortcomings of immersive Van Gogh exhibits....

Rebecca L. Spang looks at three new books about Chinese monetary history....

Dominique Routhier ponders “Smart Machines and Service Work,” the new book by Jason E. Smith....

Joshua Sperber takes a look at “A People’s Guide to Capitalism” by Hadas Thier and “Can the Working Class Change the World?” by Michael D. Yates....

A conversation about sustainability, psychedelics, and Dr. Bronner’s soap....

An assessment of the risk factor in human endeavors may be playing it too safe....

Anandi Mishra on the economic toll that COVID-19 has had on India's women....

A reissue of Milton Friedman’s classic work only shows his obsolescence....