The Great Inequality

Michael D. Yates is a writer, editor, and labor educator. He is currently associate editor of Monthly Review magazine and editorial director of Monthly Review Press. He served as professor of economics at University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown from 1969-2001 and adjunct professor of labor studies at UMass-Amherst from 1998-2014. He and his wife Karen Korenoski have been traveling the United States for the past fourteen years. These travels are recounted in his book Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: an Economist's Travelogue.

1. Inequality Casts a Long Shadow

2. The Great Inequality

3. All the Economics You Need to Know in One Lesson

4. Markets are the Problem, Not the Solution

5. Work is Hell

6. The Injuries of Class

7. It’s Still Slavery by Another Name

8. The Ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey

9. Cesar

10. OWS and the Importance of Political Slogans

11. The Growing Degradation of Work and Life and What We Might Do to End It

12. Global Inequality