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The highly-estimable Steve Randy Waldmann hoists the banner of “employment for societal usefulness, not for profit”. Smart guy: Steve Randy Waldman: Smile

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New technologies, occupational tasks, and earnings inequality in the United States

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Economic history becomes big data: Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill, and Santiago Pérez: Linking individuals across historical sources: A fully automated approach

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As chief acolyte of the “hysteresis view”, I must protest!: Benoît Cœuré: Scars that never were? Potential output and slack after the crisis

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Equal access to a good education is not just about sound school budgets

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Kevin Bryan: The 2018 John Bates Clark: Parag Pathak

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Mark Thoma on the 2009-2015 Dark Age of macroeconomics: Weekend Reading

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Paul Krugman (2012): Economics in the crisis: Weekend Reading

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To a large extent the power of NIMBYism springs from the right-wing tax revolt of the 1980s: Issi Romem: America’s new metropolitan landscape: Pockets of dense construction in a dormant suburban interior