No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity
Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.
By Polly Cleveland Inequality has surged in the U.S. over the last forty years; many observers now blame the
By Polly Cleveland Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, David and Goliath, asks how and why the weak win far more often
By Polly Cleveland In 1946, when I was a year old, my father hung up his Navy uniform and joined
By Polly Cleveland “The earth is the tomb of dead empires, no less than of dead men.” Thus wrote the
Part II: The Neoclassical Response to the Classical Theories of Inequality and Growth Mason Gaffney has shown how many individuals
In Thomas Piketty’s doomsday model, slowing of growth in the twenty-first century will cause an inexorable increase in inequality.
Spring 1999. “Professor Cui, this mouse didn’t get cancer. Should I get rid of him?” It was a standard
Back when I first studied economics, we “proved” in class that a minimum wage causes unemployment. You just draw supply
To reduce carbon emissions, we must tax fossil fuels—but, say the pundits, we can’t do so because the
There's an alternative to the drastic cuts in public services state and local officials are proposing: restore the