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Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory for the working class in the financial capital of the world is a reflection of the growing appeal…
Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics. She is the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford University Press).
In the months since his return to the presidency, Donald Trump has implemented an aggressive and utterly reactionary social and economic agenda…
Part of the Series The Struggle for Caregiving Equity Patriarchy and capitalism are class-based systems that serve to compound inequalities of all…
Most economists today don't ask who rules the global economy, visualizing it as a decentralized competitive market that cannot be ruled. Yet…
The continuing brouhaha over Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States government's credit rating offers a powerful lesson in institutional economics.…
NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist…
Paul Jay: Nancy Folbre, in her blog on the New York Times, wrote the following: "The Great Recession has sometimes been dubbed the Mancession because it…
When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition…