The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Thomas Piketty
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The Year in Inequality: Racial Disparity Can No Longer Be Ignored
There’s no way policymakers can adequately address inequality in the United States overall without recognizing the effects of the racial wealth gap.
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Revisiting Machiavelli: This Is What Oligarchic Democracy Looks Like
Political equality and true democracy are at the moment only ideals toward which we are striving – while the political institutions and policies underpinning oligarchic power must be dismantled.
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What Piketty Forgot: The Ecological Inequality That Threatens Us With Extinction
The crisis of capitalism isn't just about the gap between rich and poor – it's about the gap between what’s demanded by our planet and what’s demanded by our economy.
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From Occupation To Reconstruction: This Movement Is Just Beginning
The networks of activists that formed in the midst of 2011’s worldwide wave of protest are no longer focusing on opposing an unjust system – they’re testing ways to replace it with something new.
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Inequality Is Not Inevitable: Rewriting Laws to Reverse A Politics of Greed
Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.
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The Ownership Revolution: A Future Emerging After Capital
Credit unions — member-owned, one-person, one-vote banks — control more than $1.1 trillion in assets, as much as those of some of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions.
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Another French Economist Cracks the Nut – Revealing True Costs of Tax Evasion
By analyzing data from central banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg, Gabriel Zucman has put creditable numbers on tax evasion, showing that it’s rampant – and a major driver of wealth inequality.
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CEO's Made 331 Times As Much as Their Workers Last Year
In 2013, CEOs of S&P 500 companies made 331 times as much as their employees.
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Sobering Up: Why the 1% Is Fussing About Guillotines
Americans are under attack daily – and the super rich are starting to wonder how far they can erode our quality of life before something might just snap.
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Can Rock-Star Economist Thomas Piketty Re-Write the American Dream?
The unlikely bestseller has roiled pundits and crystallized a conversation about inequality we should have had long ago. Now he has to win over normal people.
