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Labor as a Common Pool Resource

…reject the label outright, though, he chose to examine it more closely. Marx observed that for labor-power to appear on the market as a commodity, the sellers must first be…

The Shrinking of Treehorn

…some 12-ounce bags of chips, which are now 10. Some Frito-Lay offerings got higher prices. “These are common practices,” says Gonzalez, who faulted rising costs of commodities, energy, production and…

Eyes on Trade

…did we get to the point where lawyers sat around thinking of basic human rights to turn into “tradeable commodities/services”? To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy, this 1992 intellectual history…

Train Drain

…Coast ports to retailers like Amazon and Walmart. And it still handles large reverse flows of bulk commodities like coal and grain. In this, American railroads have become like the…