Inequality
The Unequal Toll of Covid-19
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....
The End of the Capitalist-Worker Dichotomy and the Rise of a New Elite?
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...
Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”
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...
The “Turbulent Twenties” Are Just Beginning
Years ago, two academics predicted that an increase in economic inequality would lead to a period of political instability in 2020. Since then, the...
To Make a Difference, Businesses Must Have a Stake in Social Missions
Despite their promises to change the world for the better and remedy social ills, the truth is that corporations are rarely designed to solve...
The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing
In his new book Monopolized, journalist David Dayen tells the stories of individuals who have suffered at the hands of monopolists, showing the myriad...
Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that a Black...
Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
"Defund the police" has...
How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy
Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote meaningful policing...
