
Why Markets Can’t Cool the Planet
Apr 16, 2018 sees three reasons why Adam Smith's “invisible hand” is no match for climate change.
Ivan Ascher is an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction.
Apr 16, 2018 sees three reasons why Adam Smith's “invisible hand” is no match for climate change.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.