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Income Inequality

Antitrust and Competition

“I Wanted to Call People’s Attention to the Extent of Amazon’s Takeover of Washington”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, author and ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis discusses the rise of Amazon and regional inequality, the role of politics in...
Covid-19

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done so equally....
Income Inequality

The End of the Capitalist-Worker Dichotomy and the Rise of a New Elite?

Yonatan Berman
Economists typically assume that capitalists and workers are different people. A new study, however, finds that the intersection between the top decile of capital-income...
Covid-19

Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows. For most of 2020, we followed...
Covid-19

Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton outlined what he believes the incoming Biden administration should do: introduce price controls and...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

Hal Singer
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly platforms.  When the...
Income Inequality

To Make a Difference, Businesses Must Have a Stake in Social Missions

Ofer Eldar
Despite their promises to change the world for the better and remedy social ills, the truth is that corporations are rarely designed to solve...
Income Inequality

A $2.5 Trillion Question: What If Incomes Grew Like GDP Did?

Kathryn Edwards
Per capita GDP in the US grew 118 percent over the past 43 years. At the bottom 25th percentile, real income for full-time, full-year,...
Income Inequality

The Economic Costs of Discriminating Against Top Talent: Insights From Nazi Germany

Kilian Huber
A new study looks at the discrimination of Jewish managers in Germany in the 1930s and shows how the rise of a discriminatory ideology...
Antitrust and Competition

Monopolies: Silent Spreaders of Poverty and Economic Inequality

James A. Schmitz Jr.
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vast inequalities that exist within the US economy. Monopoly power should be at the top of policymakers’ list...
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