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Read more...An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Debunking the claim that extending unemployment insurance during the aftermath of the crisis was a bad idea.
Read more...How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
Read more...A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...Why analyzing minimum wage increases solely in terms of labor market impact is shortsighted.
Read more...How overreaching and poorly conceived laws produce difficult-to-justify prison sentences.
Read more...A new study on corporate tax havens shows how multinational corporations avoiding U.S. taxes represents a transfer to them from workers.
Read more...Working through explanations as to why US immigration has been negatively correlated with growth.
Read more...The perilous status of adjuncts, who serve as contingent faculty.
Read more...The backlash has begun. Prominent economists are upping their game in trying to depict the gains of the One Percent as virtuous and beneficial.
Read more...Recent statistics from the US Census Bureau show improvement from 2014-2015, but in reality, wages are in a real decline and no mechanisms have been put in place to prevent another crash, says economist Richard Wolff
Read more...Why Barcelona is taking a tough stand on AirBnB, and has strong support of its citizens.
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