Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
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- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Concentration
Families
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
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- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
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- Economic Inequality
- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
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- AI, tech, & the economy
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
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- Business Taxation
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- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Things to Read on the Morning of August 14, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

Dani Rodrik: Back to Fundamentals in Emerging Markets by Dani Rodrik
Must-Read: Harold Pollack: Opinion: Who will care for my brother-in-law Vincent?
Brad DeLong (2014): Comment on: Ayako Saiki and Jon Frost: “How Does Unconventional Monetary Policy Affect Inequality? Evidence from Japan”
J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers (1988): How Does Macroeconomic Policy Affect Output?
Must-Attend: George Evans, Roger Guesnerie, Bruce McGough and Bruce Preston: Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models
Must-Read: Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine: Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street
Must-Read: Paul Krugman: The M.I.T. Gang
Must-Read: Larry Summers (2013): Reconstructing Macroeconomics
Must-Read: Ezra Klein (2014): The Home Page Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Resting: “The home page… is becoming the way your power users find the content…

Might Like to Be Aware of:

Brad DeLong (2014): Ferguson, Missouri: Live from La Farine CXXXVIII: August 13, 2014
Allan Beatty: “A modern translation of the Battle of Maldon for the internet age: ‘Voice shall be louder, pen the shriller, doggedness the more, as our mind lessens.'”
Charlie Devereux, Pablo Rosendo Gonzalez, and Eduardo Thomson: Worst El Nino in 30 Years Hits South American Crops, Polls

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Things to Read on the Morning of August 14, 2015

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon