America's Political Economy: Essential new work on intergenerational inequality in the US - how race, gender and social structure interact
How is inequality in America produced and…
America's Political Economy: How college attendance varies with parental income
Better off Americans go to College. Poor…
America's Political Economy: The local structure of labour markets and bargaining power
Across much of America (and many other countries)…
America's Political Economy: The Double Life of Mariel
Pressed by a New York Times reporter yesterday…
America's Political Economy: Lost Generations - Cumulative Impact of Mass Incarceration
In the 1970s America embarked on a ghastly…
America's Political Economy: Class, the Republicans and the Fed
Who will be the new Fed chair? No doubt one…
America's Political Economy: climate change, inequality and the value of (poor) lives
As climate changes and temperatures rise, who…
America's Political Economy: 2007-2010 crisis hit lowest income groups harder than ever
Quartz did a good write up of some research by…
America's Political Economy: Infrastructure and Chicago's 75th street corridor
America’s infrastructure deficits can be…
America's Political Economy: The Inefficiency of Construction and the Politics of Infrastructure
One of the basic legitimations of capitalist…
America's Political Economy: The Fed and the Markets - Putting Your Ear to the Echo Chamber
Fed is getting serious about shrinking its $ 4.48…
America's Political Economy: The top 0.01 % and "entrepreneurial income"
News from the inequality front. A fascinating new…
Notes on the Global Condition: Who's Your Big Brother? NAFTA, the EU and regional integration projects
Why are 1990s NAFTA and EU Expansion not more…
Notes on the Global Condition: The Americanization of Global Capital
Fascinating story in the FT this morning about…
America's Political Economy: West Permian, the World and EXXON's shift to "extraction mode"
If there is a recent experience that inspires…
The Birth of Bailouts From the Spirit of Vietnam: The Financial Powell Doctrine, Larry Summers & the Military-Economic Intertext
In thinking about the capacity for action…
"No Mandate" at the G20 - The State of US Trade Policy in Trump's First Spring
The other German-American encounter this weekend:…
America's Political Economy: Tax Under Conditions of Oligopolistic Capitalism
Earlier this month the Institute on Taxation and…
America's Political Economy: Trump & The New Protectionist Alignment
Trump’s Presidency is a nightmarish freak…
America's Political Economy: Trump and the Republican lurch towards protectionism
One of the things that has been most rapidly…
America's Political Economy: Wealth inequality so extreme that marketing struggles to keep up
How does the mass of new data on inequality in…
America's Political Economy: Race, Evangelical Religion and Economic Policy
Extraordinary new data on the relationship…
Notes on the Global Condition: Deciphering America's 2008 crisis as a crisis of globalization.
The need for a pluralist, complex mapping of…
America's Political Economy: Trump and the Global Dollar
I wrapped up a post earlier today about the…
America's Political Economy: US income inequality and the politics of comparison.
Today is a bumper day for inequality data and it…
America's Political Economy: Leaving 50 % behind ... the very latest from Piketty, Saez and Co.
Important new working paper from the entire team…
America's Political Economy: In the FT this AM on the perversities of Trump's wall
Severing the ties of an internationally…
America's Political Economy: Dark Matter, Offshore Profits and America's Current Account
“Dark matter” is a big deal in the…