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About Kevin Cashman

Kevin Cashman does research at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which is sometimes posted on the CEPR website. This has focused on making visualizations and tools to illustrate labor market data, argue for more equitable policies, or debunk myths (e.g. that minimum wages correlate with higher unemployment, that certain industries face labor shortages, or that robots are taking our jobs). He is also a contributor for Economic Questions, have guest posts on Naked Capitalism, and write in a few other places, mostly about technology.
  • Picture from 1992, La Paz Bolivia

    OAS involvement in Bolivia precipitated the coup

    Originally published: Historicly on November 14, 2019 (more by Historicly)

    Let’s put an end to this nonesense that’s peddled by MSM.

  • Embracing industrial policy and economic planning is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental damage.

    “There is no alternative” to managing the economy and the climate

    Originally published: Economic Questions on May 12, 2019 (more by Economic Questions)  |

    The United States is the country most easily positioned to address climate change but it has done likely the least out of any rich country. China, a country significantly less wealthy than the United States, has likely done the most. In fact, a recent study provides some evidence that China’s carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2013 and are declining in large part due to changes in China’s industrial structure, which includes pilot programs for pricing carbon, among many other things.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau w/ Tyler Creighton
    Kevin Cashman

    In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the second Trump Administration. Creighton is a lawyer at the CFPB and a member of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Chapter 335.

  • Graeber’s Utopia of Refusal
    Kevin Cashman

    Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott unpack their jointly authored essay, “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination,” which is the latest […]

  • Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
    Kevin Cashman

    The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
    James Petras

    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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