Can a trade pact with Europe help America tame China?
Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2013
America’s Worst Community Colleges
The San Francisco Bay Area’s economy may be high tech, but its community colleges are the bottom of the barrel.
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Why Medicare Fixes Will Lead to More Hospital Mergers
Improving the U.S. health-care system requires encouraging low-value doctors and hospitals to practice as well as high-value ones do. The gap between the two is wide, but that only shows how much room we have for improvement. Costs vary wildly across regions, among hospitals within a region, and even among doctors within a given hospital. […]
Posted inBooks, Economy, Government, Magazine
Mob of Democrats
Egypt isn’t the only country where elected leaders are being ousted in the name of democracy.
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2013, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Estates of Mind
The answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
Posted inBooks, Economy, July/August 2013, Magazine
The Glory of the Commons
Jonathan Rowe’s brilliant posthumous meditation on the shared, non-commercialized realms of life that sustain us.
Posted inEconomy
Housing Boom a Bust for First-Time Buyers
Three years ago, Matt Morgan launched his own interior design firm in Washington, D.C. At age 32, his business is thriving, with a roster of high-end homeowners among his clients, many of whom live in Washington’s toniest suburbs. Morgan himself, however, rents. He pays $2,500 a month for an apartment in D.C., has a credit […]
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, May/June 2013
Self-Made Countries
Why poor nations aren’t prisoners of their history.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, May/June 2013
The Great Unraveling
Chronicling America’s not-quite-decline.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, May/June 2013
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
Why we’re suckers for remakes of The Great Gatsby.
