Inequality
Break Up the Police
In most cities in America, it is not the police that answers to the mayors, but the mayors to the police. The only solution...
The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities: A Webinar With Lisa Cook
Michigan State University professor Lisa Cook joined Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss how violence impacts innovation, as well as the economic and...
“We’ve Never Had a Purely Capitalist Economy—We’ve Had State-Subsidies for Some and Exclusion for Others”
In an interview with ProMarket, UC Irvine law professor Mehrsa Baradaran discussed the connection between the current protest wave and the deep-seated structural inequalities...
Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Liberal Order?
In the past 30 years, liberalism has not lived up to its promise to deliver economic returns for the broad majority of society. But...
Why Economic Predictions Are Useless Right Now
The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its global scope and open-ended, uncontrollable progress. By their very nature, the models that economists often use to...
Capital and Ideology: a Webinar With Thomas Piketty, Robert Topel, and Edward Luce
As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of Covid-19 with...
The Price of Democracy: a Webinar with Julia Cagé, Andrea Prat, and Guy Rolnik
At this trying time, there is a particularly high demand for reliable and trustworthy information. To address this demand by Booth students, alumni, faculty,...
Piketty on the Covid-19 Crisis: “It Is High Time to Use This Opportunity to Counter the Dominant Ideology and Significantly Reduce Inequality”
In an interview with ProMarket, Thomas Piketty speaks about his new book, the role of ideology as a driver of inequality, and what the...
How Inequality Hurts the Economy and Complicates Policy Responses to the Pandemic
In the years leading up to the pandemic, rising inequality created a saving glut of the rich which pushed down interest rates and fueled...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: The Risk Of Reopening – a Reading List
Despite warnings from government and health officials, some states are choosing to begin reopening their economies this week by ending lockdown restrictions. In this...
