Living Standards

Fadhel Kaboub on An Affordable Job Guarantee Program

October 16, 2017

Category: Binzagr Institute, Climate Change, Fadhel Kaboub, Full Employment, Inequality, Job Guarantee, Living Standards, Modern Monetary Theory, Poverty, Public Policy, Real Progressives

Tuesday October 17, 2017 at 7pm (see livestream link below), 1717 Brittain Road, Akron, Ohio 44310 Fadhel Kaboub, Asso

EPI: How today’s unions help working people

August 25, 2017

Category: EPI, Income, Inequality, Labor, Labor Studies, Living Standards, Unions, Wages, Work, Workers, Working-Class

By Josh Bivens, Lora Engdahl, Elise Gould, Teresa Kroeger, Celine McNicholas, Lawrence Mishel, Zane Mokhiber, Heidi

TANF didn’t fight poverty, full employment did

August 23, 2016

Category: Alan Barber, austerity, CCF, CEPR, David Fields, Dean Baker, employment, Families, Full Employment, Income, Inequality, Living Standards, Philip Cohen, Poverty, TANF, United States, Virginia Rutter, Wages, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Women, Workers

By Virginia Rutter Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work exa

The US teacher pay gap is wider than ever

August 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, education, EPI, Inequality, Living Standards, Wages, Well-being, Work

A New EPI report finds that the teacher pay penalty is bigger than ever. In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages we

Eva Swidler on Radical Leisure

June 17, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Ecology, Environment, Eva Swidler, Labour, Leisure, Living Standards, Monthly Review, Social Movements, Unions

From Monthly Review: […] In consonance with what we might call this “leisure ethic” of pre-capitalism, which re

EPI Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county

June 16, 2016

Category: David Fields, Distribution, EPI, Great recession, Inequality, jobs, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, United States, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Workers

By Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in m

Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay

June 9, 2016

Category: David Fields, Distribution, Economic Policy, EPI, Great Moderation, Inequality, Lawrence Mishel, Living Standards, Poverty, United States, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, Workers

Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, delivered the following testimony before the Democra

Overworked America: The economic causes and consequences of long work hours

May 23, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Growth, Heather Boushey, Inequality, jobs, Leisure, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Research, unemployment, United States, Wages, Well-being, Work, Workers

by Heather Boushey & Bridget Ansel Hard work is part and parcel of the American Dream, but at a certain point, workin

Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference

May 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Distribution, Economic Policy, Effective Demand, employment, Finance, Freedom, Globalization, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Production, Research, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, Workers, World Economics Association (WEA), world economy

Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat

URPE @ The 2016 Left Forum

May 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, conferences, Critical Social Science, CUNY, David Fields, Democracy, Environment, Feminism, Freedom, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Human Rights, Humanism, Institutions, Left, Left Forum, Living Standards, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Protest, Race, Radical Economics, Research, Revolution, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strategy, URPE

URPE encourage everyone who lives in or near New York City, or can make it to the conference, to attend URPE’s 7 spo

Richard D. Wolff on US Economy from a Marxist Perspective

April 22, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, Historical Materialism, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Living Standards, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Political economy, Radical Economics, Richard D. Wolff, United States

Wolff analyzes the state of the US economy from a Marxist perspective. Capitalism yields an unequal distribution of we

Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?

April 20, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Distribution, Effective Demand, Fiscal Policy, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Instability, jobs, Keynes, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Monetary Policy, Monthly Review, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Prabhat Patnaik, Radical Economics, Social Justice, unemployment, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, world economy

By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee

40,000 Verizon Workers Strike Against Corporate 'Race to the Bottom'

April 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Human Rights, Inequality, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Unions, Wages, Well-being, Work

Verizon workers across the East Coast marched in picket lines on Wednesday in the largest U.S. strike in recent memory t

'Up All Night' Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

April 12, 2016

Category: austerity, Class Conflict, David Fields, Democracy, Europe, France, Human Rights, Inequality, Labour, Living Standards, Power, Praxis, Protest, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Well-being

Demonstrations this weekend were held in as many as 60 cities and towns across France as well as in Belgium, Germany, and

YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies

April 7, 2016

Category: Balance of Payments Constraint, Call For Papers, conferences, David Fields, Debt, Dependency Theory, Development, ECLAC, Economic Policy, Esteban Perez, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Imperialism, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, Latin America, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Neoliberalism, Periphery, Radical Economics, Research, Robert Blecker, Tommasso Ciarli, UN, Well-being, world economy

The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th

New Book: Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice – The radical potential of human rights

April 7, 2016

Category: Climate Change, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Diane Elson, Economic Policy, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Freedom, GDP, Globalization, Great recession, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Human Rights, Inequality, Instability, James Heintz, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Methodology, Monetary Policy, Neoliberalism, PERI, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Radhika Balakrishnan, Radical Economics, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being

From Routledge. By Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, & Diane Elson The dominant approach to economic policy ha

Yanis Varoufakis on A United, Democratised Europe Is The Only Weapon Against A Dark Continent

March 6, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Democracy, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, Financial Crisis, Greek Crisis, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Troika, unemployment, Well-being, Yanis Varoufakis

Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Pa

J.W. Mason: Can Sanders Do It?

February 24, 2016

Category: bernie sanders, David Fields, Fiscal Policy, Gerald Friedman, Heterodox Economics, J.W. Mason, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Social Action, Well-being

By J.W. Mason Originally posted here My old professor Jerry Friedman wrote a piece several weeks ago, arguing that a com

New book by John Smith: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

February 19, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Development, Globalization, Labour, Living Standards, Marxian Economics, Methodology, Monthly Review, Political economy, Robber Barons, Social Justice, Social Movements, Socialism, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, world economy

From Monthly Review Press: Winner of the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph co

The 2016 Annual Meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology

February 18, 2016

Category: Academia, Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Living Standards, Power, Scholarship, Social Justice, Social Movements, Well-being

The 2016 Annual Meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology Elevating Humanity: Pathways to Progressivism De

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