China’s rapid economic growth is built on a factory system that relies on hundreds of millions of exploited workers. In the face of repression, those workers have found creative ways to resist.
Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex, arrives just in time to help dissuade us of the idea that we have reached the end of gay history.
A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.
To understand how NXIVM’s members went from the pursuit of professional success to facilitating and enduring horrific wrongs requires examining the world of contemporary business from which the cult emerged.
The pandemic has revealed how the rapid urbanization fueling India’s economic ascent is rooted in migrant labor.
The growing global concentration of wealth has made basic data on household savings, the trade deficit, and overseas assets increasingly unreliable.
It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.
Owen Hatherley’s eye-opening account of the left in power in London suggests both the possibilities and limits for municipal socialism.
It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society.
For decades, economists have promoted low-wage textile industry as the best way for poor countries to build a manufacturing base. In East Africa, the promised trickle-down effects of foreign investment have not materialized.
To envision a global Green New Deal requires a serious effort to grasp the deep inequities of the international economic order.
A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy.
The workers who sew clothes for global apparel giants are facing widespread hunger and destitution during the pandemic—even as many of these corporations continue to turn a profit.
Discussion in the United States about secular stagnation, a long-term tendency toward weak business investment and slow growth, has mostly focused on wealthy countries. But slowing growth around the world cannot be explained as the sign of economic “maturity.”
Introducing the Spring 2021 special section, Global Economic Disorder.
