Ending growth is unthinkable to most economists. But saving the planet may require it, at least for rich countries, this economist believes. Making it tolerable would require a high minimum standard of living. In this provocative piece, she tells us which policies would be needed.

The implications for gender equality of three regimes are compared: a low tax-low benefit regime, a regime of Basic Income Grants (BIG), and a welfare state offering a generous menu of in-kind and cash benefits concentrated on people with special needs, but not including lengthy paid parental...

In our response to the points raised by Linda Gordon, Robert Haveman, Betty Reid Mandell, and Gwendolyn Mink, we describe the Help for Working Parents Plan in greater detail, explaining the advantages of the HWP program over both the current welfare system and the proposed Republican welfare...

How do economists know what they know? In a call for a new empiricism Barbara Bergmann asserts that economists mainly make it up.