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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
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- Individual Taxation
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- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Must-Reads: October 31, 2016

Simon Wren-Lewis: Being Honest about Ideology in Economics: “Noah Smith… says the fundamental problem with macroeconomics is lack of data….
Bradley A. Hansen: The Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth: “Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth… is an excellent… expansion of Lebergott’s Pursuing Happiness…
Paul Krugman (2011): The Ricardian Equivalence Argument Against Stimulus: “There have been a lot of shockingly bad performances among macroeconomists in this crisis…
Anton Howes: Is Innovation in Human Nature?: “Most theories… assume that innovation is in human nature…
Economist: Hands Off the Bank of England: “Politicians who casually attack the central bank’s integrity are playing with fire…”
Edward Filene (1931): Successful Living in This Machine Age: “Mass Production is not simply large-scale production…

Should Reads:

U.C. Berkeley Opportunity Lab: “‘How Presidents can Help Boost American Economic Mobility’… Enrico Moretti discusses how geography and education affect economic mobility…
Weekend Reading: Enterprise Software: Death and Transfiguration
Inequality: Brown University Janus Forum

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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