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A message from editor at large Harold Meyerson:

I recently wrote a piece I've long wanted to do:
a profile of
the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley -
the folks who made the dismal science a force for progressive social
change, comprehensible for lay persons, and distinctly un-dismal. In
recent years, a new generation of economists has documented with
unprecedented precision the rise of inequality, diagnosed its causes,
and suggested plausible remedies. No one has done this more, or with
greater effect, than the economists at Berkeley, who also have refocused
the discipline away from timeless abstractions that have little to do
with actually existing economies and toward the empirical research that
anchors their work in the real world. By telling Berkeley's story, I
was able to tell the story of the transformation of the field, as well
as its salutary effect on elected leaders and American liberalism.

A recent Prospect story I truly admire is staff writer Alex Sammon's
review-essay

on Alec MacGillis's new book about Amazon: Fulfillment: Winning and
Losing in One-Click America. Alex not only summarizes MacGillis's
deeply researched account of Amazon's rise and the many it trampled in
the process, but contextualizes the story, situating the rise of
Bezosworld, as he calls it, in the decline of the powers of government
and the corresponding obeisance of governments to Amazon's demands.
Compellingly argued and beautifully written, the essay concludes by
noting that since Amazon has used public resources to establish itself
as an indispensable private utility, we should make it public - that
is, nationalize it. Damn good idea.

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