The old industrial-age systems -- state communism, fascism, free-market capitalism -- have all let us down hard, and growing numbers of us understand that going back there isn't an option.
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.25.2012
Thing One: Synchronized Sinking: Sometimes togetherness is not such a good thing. A bunch of downbeat economic data on Thursday all at once caused ...
Gar Alperovitz | Posted 05.22.2012
The "New Economy Movement" is a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up.
Cristen Conger | Posted 05.18.2012
To puzzle out whether this kind of romantic bargaining is worth the risk, it might be wiser to consult an economist than a relationship expert.
Rui Dai | Posted 05.17.2012
In the past few days, this fight was just sparked in a very interesting direction by TED censoring one of its own talks about U.S. inequality and publicity for the soon-to-be-published book by Edward Conrad.
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.17.2012
Americans are behind Obama, in the sense that they support the president's concept of a national clean energy standard. But they're also behind, in the sense that the voting public is unwilling to go as far as the president wants to go because of costs.
Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012
Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.
Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.15.2012
Alicia Tamburelli and her generation would do something amazing, something that lesser leaders would deem impossible. From the anonymity of their kitchens, and for decades on end, they managed to protect their families from the perennial failure of their country's political class.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.15.2012
Paul Krugman's book is called End This Depression Now! (exclamation point included). If that sounds like a self-help book -- the sequel to Listening to Prozac, maybe, or something by Dr. Wayne Dyer -- that's not altogether inappropriate in this age of collective near-despair.
Mark Burns | Posted 05.10.2012
During the annual inspection of my station wagon, my car guy told me how excited he was about the future of the automobile: the promise of electric cars, battery improvements, near-zero emissions and high-mileage.
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.10.2012
U.S. acid rain regulations have worked. What's more, they didn't seem to get in the way of the country's longest economic expansion.
Kimon Valaskakis | Posted 05.10.2012
It is time to challenge the underlying assumptions of austerity by asking three fundamental questions. (1) Is it fair? (2) Is it working? (3) Is it needed?
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.10.2012
This isn't heading to the bestseller lists -- but so what? Schlefer is waving a flashlight beam in a musty attic. As Alan Greenspan's public persona suggests, economics takes a perverse pride in obscurity and opacity.
Natalia Emanuel | Posted 05.07.2012
My parents messed up. Or perhaps my prestigious high school and university did. Maybe I've been oblivious. But somehow I'm 21 -- a legal adult -- and an economics major, yet I don't know the first thing about anything related to money.
Evan Soltas | Posted 05.04.2012
The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting the slowest real recovery in the post-war era, and given trend inflation which does not rise above 2 percent, the slowest nominal recovery in the postwar era.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.03.2012
Just like central banking, economics wants to speak politically, but doesn't necessarily welcome a response. In Krugman, it sometimes comes across as condescension. At the Fed, it can appear more sinister.
Evan Soltas | Posted 05.03.2012
We are moving into the medium-run period of recovery from recession, and the path of productivity during this recession is visibly different from the past.
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.08.2012
More than 1.6 million Americans have signed up for Social Security disability benefits since the recession, taking themselves out of the work force --...
Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012
Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.
Howard Fishman | Posted 05.02.2012
And so ensued the ethical debate: support The Strand and pay a whopping $10 more for the book, or save the $10 and order the same book online, further hastening the imminent demise of great bookstores like the very one I was standing in?
Nan J. Morrison | Posted 04.30.2012
From the national level down, there are many efforts underway to improve economic and financial education, increase requirements and find better ways to assess literacy levels. But it's something we all need to continue to work on together.
John Sullivan | Posted 04.26.2012
How has the unique economic history of different countries shaped them, what is it like to do business there now because of that legacy, and what lessons can they learn from other countries with a similar background?
Andrew Winston | Posted 04.26.2012
Aside from tiny Bhutan and their pursuit of Gross National Happiness, every country bases economic policy on the pursuit of endless GDP growth. But nothing can grow forever, and thus national goals alike have a sizable blind spot.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.21.2012
Economists don't really like presents. They think they are irrational. No gift giver can know what another person wants most, and any present is just ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 04.20.2012
If the U.S. housing market is experiencing a nascent recovery, it hasn't yet reached Gwinnett County, just outside of Atlanta. "Statistically, not ...
Sara Robinson | Posted 05.25.2012