Socialism Is No Longer a Dirty Word
André Schiffrin
The case for public ownership.
Robert Pollin
Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.
Barbara Ehrenreich : History
As Karl Marx's opus marks a big birthday, capitalism seems willing to mark the occasion by dropping dead.
Lucas Mann : Activism & Organizing
As economic turmoil continues over the proposed bailout plan, activists put pressure on Congress.
Center For Emerging Media : Migration & Immigration
Nation writers Bob Moser and Roberto Lovato discuss how Democrats can best pursue economic reform and a better immigration policy.
Allan Nairn : Myanmar (Burma)
We can blame the Burmese government for the unfolding tragedy in the wake of the cyclone. We can also blame ourselves.
Noise Pop Industries : Labor
Comedian Lewis Black (The Daily Show) unleashes a rant against the greed of "Buyout Barons.
Nancy Cleeland : U.S. Economy
Feeling squeezed? It's official: if you're not in management, the value of your paycheck is dropping at an alarming rate.
Alexander Cockburn : Environment
Looking askance at a practice widely supposed to be a pretty good idea.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : War & Peace
Democratic candidates need to make the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As Venezuela and the rest of Latin America repair the damage of two decades of free-market orthodoxy, John Kenneth Galbraith is a major inspiration.
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.
Remembering the political economist who brought to contemporary issues the research and philosophical vision of a scholar.
At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man.
Alexander Cockburn : U.S. Economy
While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.
: History
Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Science
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.