Nancy Folbre explores the politics of care work and future of the industry in her latest book, Making Care Work.

Season 3 episode 2 looks at recent actions taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on ...

Giuliano Fleri. For 70 years, Italy has promised a bridge across the Messina Strait. Today, the project remains unfinished.

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a ...

On June 7, 1955, the Italian national newspaper La Stampa announced—with the pompous optimism typical of the postwar ...

Mainstream economics tends only to consider that which is measurable and only to value that which produces a monetary cost or benefit. Unpaid labor becomes an afterthought, something easy to dismiss ...

The PS Mahsud, one of Bangladesh’s aging “Orange Rocket” paddle steamboats, docked on the banks of the Buriganga river, Dhaka (2024) | Ned Wontner / All rights ...

Samuel Stein’s A Right to Housing? asks more than just the titular question, but it does sit with a particularly troubling dilemma: are we crazy to keep fighting? As the book jacket describes, it ...

On September 17, 2011, a few hundred people spent the night at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and launched the movement known as Occupy Wall Street. Claiming to embody the “99%,” the movement ...

This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a ...