For Luck or Merit: On Jessi Streib’s “The Accidental Equalizer”
Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”...
Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”...
Johann N. NeemNov 18
Alessandro Camon discusses the role storytelling played in the success of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike in Hollywood....
Alessandro CamonOct 15
Dinyar Patel reviews Philip J. Stern’s “Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism.”...
Dinyar PatelOct 7
Scott R. MacKenzie reviews two new books on the theory of socioeconomic scarcity....
Scott R. MacKenzieSep 25
Weiling Deng considers Zai Liang’s “From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States.”...
Weiling DengSep 23
Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles that it’s hard to draw the line between the peculiarly 21st-century type of influence they describe—which flows from fiber-optic cables, data centers, and dollar clearinghouses—and more conventional types of power....
Krzysztof PelcSep 13
Henry M. J. Tonks explains how Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Big Chill” gets generational politics all wrong—and why we still need to watch it....
Henry M. J. TonksSep 7
Alessandro Camon discusses the WGA/SAG strike as a turning point for Hollywood....
Alessandro CamonSep 3
In a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara explores the opaque world of global finance....
Michelle ChiharaJul 24
Addis Goldman and Max Hancock trace the genealogy of Kalshi, a prediction market that trades in a range of futures....
Addis Goldman, Max HancockJul 9
J. D. Connor writes about the writers’ demands in the WGA strike in Hollywood, and about how movies about contracts relate to a downturn in production. Are we entering an era of contraction?...
J. D. ConnorJun 28
Jonathan Kirshner reviews Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”...
Jonathan KirshnerMay 14
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Melissa Hope Ditmore about her new book “Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy.”...
Eleanor J. BaderMay 8
Andrew Koppelman reviews J. Bradford DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.”...
Andrew KoppelmanMar 27
Paul W. Gleason reviews Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America.”...
Paul W. GleasonMar 21
Rebecca L. Spang reviews Jacob Soll’s “Free Market: The History of an Idea” and Stefan Eich’s “The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes.”...
Rebecca L. SpangMar 11
Hugh Charles O’Connell reviews China Miéville’s “A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.”...
Hugh Charles O’ConnellFeb 18
LARB’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Chihara, profiles the elusive pokergenius–turned-author Annie Duke....
Michelle ChiharaJan 26
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...
J. D. ConnorDec 16, 2022
Writer Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn interview Adrienne Buller, author of “The Value of a Whale.”...
Cal Turner, Sara Van HornOct 27, 2022
Martijn Konings discusses implications of government bailouts within the neoliberal order and potential futures for the post-bailout state....
Martijn KoningsOct 14, 2022
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....
Michelle ChiharaOct 6, 2022
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.”...
Susan Blumberg-KasonSep 26, 2022
Dennis Hogan considers Charlie Eaton’s “Bankers in the Ivory Tower”...
Dennis M. HoganAug 5, 2022