True False 1 1 9 6 True False True Book Reviews Load More Labor | December 2022 Financial Markets and the Common Good IN THE 1970s, labor activists came to believe that if US unions mobilized the enormous latent financial leverage in the growing pension funds they had won for their members, they might transform American capitalism, using labor’s investing power to modify corporate behavior. JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN Gender | December 2022 Gender Discrimination in Economics GENDER DISCRIMINATION and the associated biases and barriers to career advancement are unwelcome realities for many working women, and the economics profession is no exception. LISA KOLOVICH Financial institutions | September 2022 Governance, Assistance, and Interference THE GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY may be established fixtures today, but their roots in Allied supply management during World War I were once controversial Jeff Kearns Income inequality | September 2022 Making Progress THE LONG MARCH of progress is marked by revolutions, struggles, economic crises, liberations, injustices, and regressions—the “turning points where social conflicts are crystalized and power relationships are redefined ERA DABLA-NORRIS Economic theory | September 2022 China, the US, and Global Economic Leadership China’s dramatic growth and its implications for the world economy have fueled new books at a pace commensurate with the subject VIVEK ARORA Commodities | June 2022 War, Peace, and Wheat THIS PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT that wheat plays a key role in the rise and fall of empires was published two days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent prices for the grain soaring to a record and stirred supply fears. Jeff Kearns Load More Related Links F&D Homepage F&D Topics F&D Authors Country Focus