October 5, 2012
—Peter N. Stearns Recent surveys on Chinese life satisfaction provide yet another indication of the fraught relationship between modern development and overall happiness. The New York Times report by Richard… READ MORE
October 4, 2012
—Robert Cherry As the debate unfolded, my worst fears came to the fore: Democrats never win if they posture themselves as more responsible deficit fighters than their Republican opponents; that… READ MORE
August 22, 2012
—Robert Cherry Republican hopefuls, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, strongly believe that providing economic incentives for entrepreneurs is central to economic growth, so that government business regulations and taxes are… READ MORE
July 17, 2012
Economist Robert Cherry introduces us to his new tax policy proposal, the New Mothers Tax Relief (NMTR). The proposal was cited yesterday by Nancy Folbre on the New York Times blog, Economix, and recently published in the influential… READ MORE
July 9, 2009
From KPFA’s Against the Grain: Download program audio (mp3, 41.02 Mbytes) The era of stable, secure, steady work with one employer is over. According to Andrew Ross, author of the… READ MORE
May 15, 2009
Andrew Ross, Chair of NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, is author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. Illustration courtesy of… READ MORE
April 17, 2009
We had a great party last night for Nice Work If You Can Get It and the launch of the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis. We had a… READ MORE
November 24, 2008
Corporate Social Irresponsibility in Bananaland Marcelo Bucheli (author of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005) After extended efforts to… READ MORE