Economic Policy

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.

In this video, an expert panel delves into the classic debate between laissez-faire and interventionism, as it plays out in our nation’s politics.

As a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code goes into effect, experts with different points of view discuss its implications and ways of redesigning our current system to benefit all.

L. McCall and A.S. Orloff. The British Journal of Sociology. vol. 68, no. S1. pp. 34-56. 2017.