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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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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Must-reads: April 27, 2016

David Glasner: What’s Wrong with Monetarism?
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren: The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: W@4PM, Wells-Fargo Room: Stream: http://bluejeans.com/617756972
John Stoehr: Thomas Frank and the Illusion of Presidential Omnipotence
Omer Moav: Geography, Transparency, and Institutions

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Noah Smith: Life Update: Leaving Stony Brook, Joining Bloomberg View
Ben Zipperer: Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with David Card and Alan Krueger
Gavyn Davies: Is there a new Plaza Accord?
Julia Belluz and Alvin Chang: What research on English dukes can teach us about why the rich live longer
Susannah Locke: How to debunk false beliefs without having it backfire
Roman Empire GDP Per Capita Map Shows That Romans Were Poorer Than Any Country in 2015

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