Category Archives: Free market ideology

Fineman responds to the Porsche argument against maternity coverage

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Martha McCluskey

Lest you think free market economists give no thought to fairness — or have little compassion for underinsured Americans — Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw recently worried that purchasers of individual health insurance can no longer choose to forgo the luxury … Continue reading →

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Distinguishing science from “market” power? Field notes on the political economy of academia

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Martha McCluskey

It’s become common wisdom in the U.S. that non-transparent big money largely drives elections, legislatures, regulatory agencies, and much of the judicial system, eroding the public trust and reinforcing perceptions that law and politics, as well as economics, operates largely … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers and Participation in ClassCrits V: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream

Posted on January 20, 2012 by ublawguest

This workshop, the fifth meeting of ClassCrits, takes on class and the American dream as its theme. The most quintessentially American trait may be our capacity to look past current misfortune and imagine a brighter future.  Americans love a “rags … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, Classcrits events, corporate power, economic and social rights, Education, Equality Theory, Events, Financial Crisis, Free market ideology, Gender, Geography, Labor, Legislation, politics, Poverty, protest, Race and Ethnicity, What is ClassCrits?, who is middle class? | 2 Comments

Photoessay: Occupy Oakland, 11/2/2011

Posted on November 2, 2011 by aharris175

A couple of snapshots of the “general strike” day. The mood in the crowd was peaceful and mellow and the smell of pot was everywhere (this is Oaksterdam, after all). In contrast to what the New York Times has reported … Continue reading →

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Class Warfare Comes out of the Closet

Posted on May 16, 2011 by ublawguest

By Lisa R. Pruitt David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director, published an op-ed in the New York Times last month, “The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness.” Stockman begins: It is obvious that the nation’s desperate fiscal condition requires higher … Continue reading →

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Market Success Means Market Failure

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

Martha McCluskey A revealing fact about class in the contemporary picture and example of the striking contradictions of dominant economic theory and policy comes from an excellent piece in today’s Truthout.  In a piece titled Arrogance and Authority, Financial policy … Continue reading →

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The Identity Politics of Poverty

Posted on February 17, 2011 by aharris175

The financial markets may be up, but the experts all warn that for ordinary non-elites in the United States, the economic situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. Joblessness lingers, while states and municipalities cut their services … Continue reading →

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No Professor Is an Island (Or, Corporatization as Climate Change)

Posted on February 1, 2011 by aharris175

My friend Hannah is a single mom with a degree in art history and two kids in college. She used to have a full-time job as a slide librarian at Mills College in Oakland, till the college, under financial strain, … Continue reading →

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Harvey’s quick story of capitalism’s crisis

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

Those interested in class, crisis and the law might find useful this short video summary of the crisis from a Marxian perspective that’s been making the rounds:   David Harvey, Crisis of Capitalism, (April 26, 2010).    Harvey identifies a … Continue reading →

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