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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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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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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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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
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Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Things That Probably Aren’t True

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Brad DeLong

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Things That Probably Aren’t True:

Rational expectations
DSGE models
Consumption Euler equation
Calvo pricing
New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Classical dichotomy

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Brownback’s Kansas Experiment a Failure

Posted on May 22, 2016May 23, 2016 by Brad DeLong

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: On Twitter:

Its time to declare Brownbacks Kansas experiment a failure: https://t.co/6R7dHrPk1K
More: https://t.co/DP4QLSkQi2 pic.twitter.com/lUgLMa38Ch

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 26, 2016

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent

Posted on May 19, 2016May 20, 2016 by Brad DeLong

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent:

Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent: pic.twitter.com/90OUpUj8nJ

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 19, 2016

Justin Wolfers on Twitter Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent https t co 90OUpUj8nJ

Inequality, technocracy, utility, and the Federal Reserve

Posted on December 10, 2015December 15, 2015 by Brad DeLong

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!!!!

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Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: A Nation of Part-Timers?

Posted on October 2, 2015October 5, 2015 by Brad DeLong

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Remember all those people who predicted Obamacare would make us a nation of part-timers? http://t.co/IBOlyomtbE:

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Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Things That Probably Aren’t True

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Brownback’s Kansas Experiment a Failure

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent

Inequality, technocracy, utility, and the Federal Reserve

Must-Read: Justin Wolfers: A Nation of Part-Timers?

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