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New mandates must beget new organizing

Frank McCourt discusses his work to reinspire hope in the American experiment, and to build the framework necessary for that better tomorrow.

Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.

Michael Greenberg’s INET working paper on derivatives regulation is featured in Salon

How can we develop a deeper, more human and multifaceted understanding of the past?

An analysis of gun lobby contributions to Republicans and Democrats

Can society continue its long-run trajectory and commit to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can advance equality?

Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this ministerial than is generally known.

Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation

Are there alternative, less socially costly, ways to bring inflation down?

Columbia University’s renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the lessons he has learned from consulting with governments around the world, about how global problems, such as the war in Ukraine, will only be solved via efforts to understand the other side, never through force.

James M. Buchanan’s defenders argue he was not racist because of his ties with the anti-apartheid economist W.H. Hutt, but this defense fails miserably

Despite his opposition to South Africa’s apartheid, Hutt embraced notions of black inferiority

An obituary for Axel Leijunhufvud (Sept 6, 1933 - May 5, 2022)

Corporate responsibility needs to evolve if businesses are going to rebuild trust and provide real value for society.