Understanding Society

Many thoughtful people in the US are concerned about the effects that the  2025 federal budget reconciliation law  will have on poor people ...

An earlier post ( link ) highlighted the growing severity of inequalities of wealth and income in the United States, as well as Elizabeth Wa...

What is wrong with life in the modern world? The complaint that modern society represents a toxic reduction of the importance of community i...

Communism ... or Capitalism? A joke from Poland in the 1970s: "In capitalism it is a question of man's exploitation by m...

Indian economists V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan have edited a highly interesting volume,  Telling the Truth, Taking Sides: ...

[V. K. Ramachandran was a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, and is at present vice chairman of the State Plan...

American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country. The recent effort to ...

How important should the subject of poverty be within the discipline of economics? Some economists appear to think it is a very small issue ...

If you live within the reach of a major American city -- and most Americans do -- then you know what "marginality" is. It is th...