• Neurodiversity and Justice: Embracing Neurodiversity as Part of the Fight Against Discrimination and Injustice
    Neurodiversity and Justice: Embracing Neurodiversity as Part of the Fight Against Discrimination and Injustice

    It is time to position ourselves at the pivotal intersection where the celebration of neurodiversity meets the call for social justice.

    Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva
    Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva

    Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Many of our listeners will be familiar with Dr. Tcherneva’s contributions to MMT, especially her book, The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity Press, 2020). We speak with Pavlina about her work, and also get her perspective on the causes and conditions of MMT’s movement from the margins of economic discourse toward the mainstream of political economic thought. 

    First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court
    First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court

    New York State's Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 permits the regulation of residential rents  ("rent stabilization") on the declaration of a housing emergency in New York City when the vacancy rate falls below 5%, or by similar declarations in municipalities in the suburban New York City counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland.

    Taurus and the bullfighters: Berlin Bulletin No. 221, March 23, 2024
    Taurus and the bullfighters: Berlin Bulletin No. 221, March 23, 2024

    Weapons, weapons, weapons—the more the better! With ever louder talk about “the foe” and “protective measures”, as if Putin were amassing troops or maneuvering warships along German borders—instead of just the opposite taking place in the Baltic and Lithuania…The blitzkrieg-laden spirit of 1941 Germany is all over the media.

    Dossier no. 74: Interrupted emancipation: Women and work in East Germany
    Dossier no. 74: Interrupted emancipation: Women and work in East Germany

    This dossier looks at the history and unfinished work of women’s liberation in the German Democratic Republic, such as its achievements, legacy, and the challenges it faced.

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