‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
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Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...Why Our Food Systems Need a Radical Overhaul
Despite ravaging the Earth for industrial agriculture, we can’t provide nourishing food globally. That has to change.
Read more...Why East Germans Are Not Taking Advantage of the Large Wage Gap Between East and West Germany
Reallocating workers to better jobs at their current location could be a more cost-effective avenue to increase aggregate wages, and even accelerate regional convergence
Read more...Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
Read more...Boris Johnson, Not Donald Trump, Is the Real Blue-Collar Conservative
Is Boris Johnson misunderstood?
Read more...The Race to Slash ‘Red Tape’ in Post-Brexit Britain Has Begun. How Can It Be Resisted?
Brexit is being used to accelerate the neoliberal race to the bottom.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Democrats’ Quandary – In a Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy, Something Must Give
The Democrats’ civil war over who controls the party may be coming to a head.
Read more...Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
Read more...Legacy Admissions: Johns Hopkins Drops Preferences, Other Institutions Consider Changes
Johns Hopkins announces it’s eliminated legacy admissions, sparking a wider debate. Will other institutions follow?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
The concern is not for banks or investors in subprime-credit-card backed securities. But what does this bifurcation tell us about consumers?
Read more...To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
How to combat cultural beliefs that justify extreme inequality.
Read more...Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic
Bad bets by individuals, the state, and globalizing elites
Read more...Not All Keynesian Spending Is Equal
How “Keynesian” ideas regularly misrepresent Keynes.
Read more...A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
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