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.
Polly Cleveland
22 articles
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How Colonies Can Liberate Themselves by Taxing Real Estate
By Polly Cleveland Greece, Haiti, and Puerto Rico have something important in common: they are colonies. Puerto Rico started out
The Democrats Confront Monopoly
By Polly Cleveland In the 1970’s when I studied microeconomics in grad school, we got to monopoly briefly in
Beauty, Cooperation, and the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers
Part II Beauty, Cooperation, and the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers By Polly Cleveland In The Evolution of Beauty, Yale ornithologist Richard Prum
The Dissing of Henry George
By Polly Cleveland My father, born in 1910, told me that when he was young every educated person read Progress
The 7 Secrets of the Prolific
By Polly Cleveland If you’re like me, you always wanted to be a writer—but obligations came first: family,
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By Polly Cleveland When I was a teenage bookworm, and later a student at Harvard and Berkeley, I looked down
James Galbraith Tells Us What Everyone Needs to Know About Inequality
By Polly Cleveland Inequality has surged in the U.S. over the last forty years; many observers now blame the
David and Goliath, or Why the One Percent Has to Rig the System
By Polly Cleveland Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, David and Goliath, asks how and why the weak win far more often
John Perkins' New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By Polly Cleveland In 1946, when I was a year old, my father hung up his Navy uniform and joined
The Mouse That Wouldn't Die: How a Lack of Public Funding Holds Back a Promising Cancer Treatment
Spring 1999. “Professor Cui, this mouse didn’t get cancer. Should I get rid of him?” It was a standard