ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Green Capitalism Is a Scam: A Conversation with Adrienne Buller

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

CAL TURNER, SARA VAN HORN

LAW

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

What Comes After the Bailout State?

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

MARTIJN KONINGS

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Visible Faultlines: A Conversation with the Authors of “Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy”

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 CHIHARA

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Silver Screen Diplomacy: On Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” and Karen Ma's “China’s Millennial Digital Generation”

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-KASON

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

AROUND THE WORLD

FILM

Ruling Class in Session: On Charlie Eaton’s “Bankers in the Ivory Tower”

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

DENNIS M. HOGAN

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

Love’s Labor, Lost and Found: Academia, “Quit Lit,” and the Great Resignation

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

LUKAS MOE

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Invisible Labor, Invisible Hands

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

EMILY HODGSON ANDERSON

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Coming Soon — Anthropocene Economics

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

LEONARD NAKAMURA, MICHAEL MACKENZIE

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Van Gogh Experiences: Immersive Art in the COVID Era

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

RACHEL TEUKOLSKY

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

ART & ARCHITECTURE

China and the Money Question

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

REBECCA L. SPANG

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

AROUND THE WORLD

Why Has Capitalism Run Out of Steam?

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

DOMINIQUE ROUTHIER

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

On Understanding Capitalism

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....

JOSHUA SPERBER

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

All-One or All-None: A Conversation with David Bronner and Gero Leson

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

AYIZE JAMA-EVERETT

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Risk Management and Its Discontents

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

VESPER NORTH

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

The Social Safety Net Is Women

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

ANANDI MISHRA

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Uncle Miltie’s Never-Ending Show

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

ANDREW STARK

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Imagining a Different Economy

The life, ideas, and enduring relevance of Thorstein Veblen....

PAUL W. GLEASON

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

The Liberal Trust Crisis

Adam Kelly reviews the latest book from William Davies, "This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain."...

ADAM KELLY

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

The Political Economy of Chappelle’s Redemption Songs

Matt Seybold on what Dave Chappelle's return tells us about celebrity and corporate power....

MATT SEYBOLD

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

TELEVISION

Resisting Market Rule

A new book argues that Americans have always sought to limit capitalism, but can today’s progressives overcome the barriers to social democracy?...

JUSTIN H. VASSALLO

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

A More Muscular Government?: On Barbara Freese’s “Industrial-Strength Denial”

How denial of the truth is a corporate problem, and the potential cure is politics....

ZINING MOK

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

POLITICS

The Talented Ms. Calloway

What can Caroline Calloway tell us about media culture, the self-branding industry, gig work, and a growing army of hungry creatives vying for attention?...