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And so, in that 2011 period, knowing that we had a long haul of trying to really bring back the economy for those who have been so devastated, and to see the Occupy movement sort of take on the ...
The Cuban peso traded on the informal market at an all-time low of 400 to the dollar on Monday, as the partial dollarization ...
Imagine if Jeff Bezos had been born in 1864 instead of 1964. What a tragedy for Americans if so, and realistically for humankind. If born 100 years earlier there’s no debating that Bezos would h ...
The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while padding the wallets of the highest earners the most, according to an analysis released Monday by ...
What I’d ask Sir Angus Deaton. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton Published in October 2023 Professor Deaton (Angus, if I can be so bold to be ...
There is a lot of inequality in the world both within and across nations. Many people, me included, long for a more equal world where the haves and the have-nots are not so far apart.
Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence ...
Bringing an Inquisitive Mind to Inequality A lifelong curiosity guides Sandy Darity’s influential work on the nation’s racial wealth gap Caption Sandy Darity, Duke’s Samuel Dubois Cook Professor of ...
May their inspiration spread. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity).
But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.