Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners
Policy choices have subjected manufacturing workers to global competition while shielding high-wage professionals.
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Baby Bonds: A Plan for Black/White Wealth Equality Conservatives Could Love?
Is the Baby Bonds plan to give newborns an account proportionate to their degree of disadvantage inspired or just a misguided gimmick?
Read more...Dean Baker: Rigged – How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
Dean Baker explains how market structure, which results from policy choices, legislation, and regulation, serve the rich first and foremost.
Read more...Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
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Read more...The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers – Veblen in the 21st Century
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Read more...The Evidence Is Clear: Population Growth and Prosperity Are NOT Linked
An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Unemployment Insurance Extension During Great Recession Did Not Destroy Jobs
Debunking the claim that extending unemployment insurance during the aftermath of the crisis was a bad idea.
Read more...Latest Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 2
How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Are Our Earnings Really Our ‘Just Deserts’?
Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...The Quiet Desperation of Millennials
A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...The Impact of Minimum Wage Changes on Infant Health
Why analyzing minimum wage increases solely in terms of labor market impact is shortsighted.
Read more...“There Ought to be a Law….” Why Prison is the American Way
How overreaching and poorly conceived laws produce difficult-to-justify prison sentences.
Read more...Report: New Data Disproves US Corporations’ False Narrative on Taxes
A new study on corporate tax havens shows how multinational corporations avoiding U.S. taxes represents a transfer to them from workers.
Read more...Negative Effects of Immigration on the Economy
Working through explanations as to why US immigration has been negatively correlated with growth.
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