When Trying to Increase Your Pay Was Dangerous
The long and often brutal history of owners scheming to contain pay levels.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Economics of the Populist Backlash
Populist movements are the regular result of trade-induced economic dislocations and distribution. So why were economists surprised?
Read more...The Slogan ‘Globalization Equals Growth’ Is Wrong
Looking at different types of globalization helps explain why it isn’t necessarily beneficial.
Read more...Inequality: How We Got Here, and What Should Be Done
More discussion of the causes of rising inequality and possible remedies.
Read more...Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
Read more...Some People “Would Rather Have 1st Class Seats on the Titanic Than Change the Course of the Ship”
Why it is necessary to depose Democratic party leaders like Pelosi and Schumer to have any chance of winning class and climate change wars.
Read more...It’s Not (Just) the Working Class. It’s the Service Class
Why the way for Democrats to regain political power is to target the service class…assuming they can bring themselves to do that.
Read more...Americans Tolerate Inequality Because They Over-Estimate Their Odds of Coming Out on Top
How Americans’ optimism leads to self-delusion on their odds of success, and therefore to not supporting policies in their real interest.
Read more...Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American Carnage”
An in-depth look at Trump’s economic plans shows they would enrich the 1% and hurt the “forgotten people” he promised to help.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Collapsing Social Contract
Tracing the trajectory of social breakdown in the US.
Read more...The Tragedy of ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ and the U.S.’s Insane Approach to Dental Care
Lack of dental care weighs as heavily on the poor, particularly the rural poor, as access to what we usually define as “medical” care.
Read more...U.S. Women Disproportionately Burdened by Student Debt
The wage gap hits women hard in paying off student debt.
Read more...Nina Turner: Wall St. Democrats vs. Working Class Democrats
A wide-ranging discussion with Nina Turner from the People’s Summit in Chicago.
Read more...Globalization and Executive Compensation
One way globalization has increased inequality: via executive pay.
Read more...Measuring the Impact of Immigration on Wages: The Mariel Boatlift Controversy
125,000 mainly low-skill Cuban immigrants arrived in Miami in 1980. Economists are still debating whether they lowered local wages.
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