The laws on intellectual property are designed to make a relatively small number of people very rich. In doing so, they not only make everyone else poorer, but they also cost millions or even tens of millions of lives

Covid may be with us for a while, but it need not be a dreaded disease and pose a major threat to the economy

That may sound pretty crazy, but that’s roughly what the minimum wage would be today if it had kept pace with productivity growth since its value peaked in 1968

There are few areas of the economy that would not be affected in a big way, either positively or negatively, by the long-term implications of global warming

The long and short is that, in our high-tech globalized economy, accountability is only something that those at the bottom have to worry about

It is essential to do everything possible to accelerate the distribution of vaccines. It is long past time that we started taking the pandemic seriously

Many people don’t seem to realize the absurdity of trying to spend China into the ground, as some would claim we did with the Soviet Union

When We Give Rich People Money, Why Does Inequality Surprise Us?

Instead of using government funds to pay drug companies to develop new drugs and vaccines, we reward them with a patent monopoly

The pandemic is a full out emergency that should have led us to do everything possible to stem its spread as quickly as possible