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...An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Immigration is a hot topic in the antipodes too, for much the same reason as in the US….the impact on jobs and wage rates.
Read more...How much-derided “populism” has revealed some ugly truths about the TPP, leading Clinton and Obama to try to reposition themselves.
Read more...How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
Read more...How the mainstream media is still waging a Phony War for the elites — and why you need to donate to the Naked Capitalism fundraiser.
Read more...A discussion of why the center-left failed to revive in Europe after the crisis. Some of the reasons apply to the US as well.
Read more...We are not in a recovery and we’re not really in a traditional recession. People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can’t revive.
Read more...The rising share of income accruing to housing is a key feature of the changing US income distribution. This column examines the determinants of this phenomenon. The rise occurred due to an increasing share of income accruing to owner-occupiers through imputed rent, it is concentrated in states that are constrained in terms of new housing supply, and it is closely associated with the long-run decline in real interest rates and inflation.
Read more...Why citizens are correct to be worried about trade deals like CETA and the TTIP.
Read more...A new survey on the outlook of Millennials finds they are not happy campers, and for good reason.
Read more...What Clinton needs to do to win Millennials.
Read more...The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...The Fed ‘s creative euphemisms for how real wages are sinking for many won’t keep threats like Trump at bay.
Read more...How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...A new study on corporate tax havens shows how multinational corporations avoiding U.S. taxes represents a transfer to them from workers.
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