Tag: Economics

Notice what Kohei Saito is reading?

Notice what Kohei Saito is reading?

In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of “Monopoly Capital,” by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book “Capital in the Anthropocene” (Editor’s note: Not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster’s book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English…

EXCERPTS: INEQUALITY, CLASS AND ECONOMICS, by Eric Schutz

EXCERPTS: INEQUALITY, CLASS AND ECONOMICS, by Eric Schutz

The economic expansion just prior to the pandemic seemed to justify optimism about inequality. But Covid-19 showed just how little grounds there were for optimism. The pandemic demonstrated how poorly prepared for such a crisis a society could be that fails to provide universal, high-quality health care to a significant proportion of its population, as the case and death rates in the United States have demonstrated…