Sol Picciotto (Lancaster): Paradoxes of Regulating Corporate Capitalism: Property Rights and Hyper-Regulation. Richard Schragger (Virginia): Democracy and Debt. David A. Spencer (Leeds): Work is a Four-Letter Word: The Economics of Work in Historical and Critical Perspective. A review of Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes by Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman. Redistribution of labour: With working hours and unemployment on the rise, Harriet Bradley argues that it's time to consider the logical alternative — job-sharing. Justin E. H. Smith reviews Debt by David Graeber (and more and more and more and more). The theory of power: Many economists are offering a robust challenge to laissez-faire, but to prevail they'll have to win in the court of public opinion. A review of Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan. Esther Dyson on the real job creators: America should glorify entrepreneurs less and managers more. "No one knows what the term scab means, anymore": Steven Higgs on the decline and fall of American labor. Big business is good for America: Why vilifying corporations misses the point. Robert H. Frank on how technology and winner-take-all markets have made the rich so much richer, and on the progressive consumption tax, a win-win solution for reducing American income inequality. Rethinking Debt: Jared Bernstein on how Washington refuses to understand that debt can be an essential tool for economic growth — can we overcome this irrational and destructive fear? Meet 5 big lenders profiting from the $1 trillion student debt bubble (Hint: You know some of them already).
