by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Jun 18, 2014 | Economy
How do you decide who to marry, or whether to marry at all? How many children to have? Whether to engage in short-term hookups or long-term partnerships? We don't like to think that economic forces outside our individual control can shape the most intimate aspects of...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Jun 3, 2014 | Economy
In Boston this past weekend, the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans fighting to raise tax rates — for themselves! — and HuffPost Live hosted French economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | May 28, 2014 | Economy
The media are all abuzz with the changing nature of work. Exciting words like “creativity” and “adaptability” get thrown around, specifically in connection to the shift away from steady, full-time employment to a gig economy of freelancers and short-term contracts....
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | May 23, 2014 | Conservatism
On the June cover of the conservative magazine American Spectator, a vision arises from the collective unconscious of the rich. Angry citizens look on as a monocled fatcat is led to a blood-soaked guillotine, calling up the memory of the Reign of Terror during the...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | May 15, 2014 | Economy
The good, the bad, and the downright crazy in economic trends.... 1. America lags behind much of the world on minimum wage. On May 18, the Swiss will vote on a proposed minimum wage of — are you listening American CEOs? — nearly $25 per hour. That would be, oh, about...
