While plant species around the world will have to cope with warming temperatures and a changing climate, coffee is especially vulnerable to these changes.
AOC’s tax proposal finds inspiration not in Karl Marx, but in mainstream American political philosophy. How we tax the rich depends on why we tax the rich, and AOC’s proposal reflects a surprisingly moderate view of economic justice.
Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.
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With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.
"Adam Tooze’s greatest achievement," writes reviewer Chakrabortty, "is to chronicle what actually happened before, during and in the long aftermath of the biggest financial crash of our lifetimes. It sounds simple but it is radical."
David Harvey's book both distills Marx's Capital and makes the text relevant in understanding today's contagion of neoliberal globalization.
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What happens when individuals each seek to exploit a shared resource without rules that protect the common good? Another story of markets being irrational.
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