political economy

"As another Thomas—Pynchon—said: “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”  Progressives have all kinds of ideas to shape a more equitable primary distribution.  But those ideas will never get much oxygen if we remain voluntary trapped in the cramped debate of a short-sighted economics."

Why is Capital So Much Stronger than Labor? by Jared Bernstein