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Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.

How the U.S. created a new kind of managed and political monetary system in the wake of World War I.

How did taxes become something we "do"?

An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.

Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries.

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

By thinking big, Shawn Fain is summoning memories of Walter Reuther and the autoworkers’ union’s finest hour.

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

First, the GOP became the party of tax cuts and now it won't touch entitlements — which makes a balanced budget nearly impossible.

Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.

The Richmond Bread Riot broke out during the Civil War when working-class women in the South became fed up with food shortages.

Colonial currencies and the pan-American origins of the dollar system.

Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.

Housing costs are skyrocketing. History offers a path forward.

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.

The emergence of the supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.

Amid the global threats posed by climate change, energy costs, unemployment and inequality, the need to rethink progress is now an urgent priority.

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

The long, strange saga of government cheese.

History’s lessons for the volatile digital currency markets.

Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.

Who did neoliberalism?

His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy.

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.

The recent panic over retail theft reveals tensions at the heart of American consumerism.