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Must-Read: Marshall Steinbaum: How Much Would Increasing Top Income Tax Rates...

Must-Read: Marshall Steinbaum: How Much Would Increasing Top Income Tax Rates Reduce Inequality?: “William Gale, Melissa Kearney, and Peter Orszag… increasing top-bracket ordinary income tax rates…...

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Must-Read: Marshall Steinbaum: Thomas Piketty at the University of Chicago

Must-Read: It is genuinely surprising to me that Kevin Murphy thinks that Katz and Murphy (1992) is still close to the last word on inequality. And it is beyond genuinely surprising that Steve Durlauf...

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Inequality, technocracy, utility, and the Federal Reserve

Storify: Inequality, Technocracy, Utility, and the Federal Reserve: A Short Twitter Dialogue on Various Matters of Moral Philosophy, or, IT’S OK FOR THE FED CHAIR TO TALK ABOUT INEQUALITY!!!! [View the...

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Must-read: Bernard Weisberger and Marshall Steinbaum: “Economists of the...

Must-Read: Bernard Weisberger and Marshall Steinbaum: Economists of the World, Unite!: “The original draft of that [American Economic Association] founding document… …stated the group’s objectives as...

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Must-read: Marshall Steinbaum: “Should the American Middle Class Fear the...

Must-Read:The very sharp young whippersnapper Marshall Steinbaum: Marshall Steinbaum: Should the American Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?: “Politicians responsible to the public cannot sell the...

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Must-read: Marshall Steinbaum: “Uber’s Antitrust Problem”

Must-Read: Are Uber and companies like it anti-rent seeking plays? Yes. Are they regulatory arbitrage plays? Yes. Are they behavioral economics plays–exploiting their workers who don’t properly...

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