Category Archives: Income disparity

“Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”

Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?

NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More

Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.

Algorithmic Management

Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.

Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down

A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.

Wait and See: The Labor Market Implications of Economic Uncertainty

An increase in perceived uncertainty does indeed increase the value of waiting, thus reducing job creation.

Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies

Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.

With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020

The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.

Allow Least Developed Countries to Develop

Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.

Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It

From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?

‘Catastrophic Injustice’: Judge OKs Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Shielding Sacklers

Tens of thousands dead and the Sacklers get to ride away with their Purdue Pharma loot.