Steven A. Ramirez (Loyola): Rodrigo’s Abstraction: Capitalism, Inequality, and Reform Over Time and Space. This Kardashian headline shows why two Nobel winners say the economy is broken: Jeff Guo interviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, authors of Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (and more and more). Danny Dorling reviews Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor by Ronald P. Formisano. Challenging the oligarchy: Paul Krugman reviews Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert Reich. Robert Reich on the rigging of the American market. All hollowed out: Victor Tan Chen on the lonely poverty of America’s white working class. Noah Smith on the decline and fall of America’s working class. Mark Thoma on three ways to help the working class. Jared Bernstein on how good things happen at full employment.
