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Title
Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice
Description
Dollars & Sense past and present
The first Dollars & Sense , a 16-page bulletin that sold for 50 cents, came out in November 1974. Sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics, and produced by a collective of URPE members, Dollars & Sense sought to challenge the mainstream media's account of how the U.S. economy works by publishing popularly written, critical articles in an accessible format. As the magazine's publishers would describe its beginnings five years later:
It was a time of oil shortages, skyrocketing inflation, the beginnings of recession -- a time when economic crisis was starting to replace war in Indochina as the central event dominating the news and defining the possibilities for social change. Most activists were unprepared for the new economic problems of the late 1970s. No existing publication offered them a widely accessible, usable analysis of the U.S. economy. Dollars & Sense was created to meet that need.
More than 25 years and 240 issues after its founding, Dollars & Sense continues to meet the need for "left perspectives on current economic affairs," as our masthead proclaims. We print articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing, labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism.
Languages
English
Contact
- Dollars and Sense
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- Boston MA
- United States 02108
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- +1.6174472177
