Economic Policy

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 07. 2020.

P. Krugman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2020.

In his New York Times newsletter, Paul Krugman discusses the political debate over who should and who shouldn’t receive government aid.

In this video, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman discuss their recent book and why the United States needs to increase wealth taxes to combat inequality.

In this interview, Salvatore Morelli explains why wealth inequality is in some ways a more dangerous threat than income inequality.

B. Milanovic. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2019.

In his weekly newsletter for The New York Times, Paul Krugman discusses why we should be discussing the economic super elite.

In this video, Leslie McCall and other experts discuss why capitalism is failing to generate shared prosperity and what can be done.

Our research assistant Chuxin Lui discusses what sparked her interest in studying economics and inequality.

In this lecture, Leslie McCall presents a framework for understanding how, in the United States, public opinions about inequality, economic opportunity, and redistribution are related to one another in ways that are at odds with key tenets of American exceptionalism.