Since the 1970s in-country inequality has grown across much of world. But whereas in China and France all incomes have risen, in the US half the population has seen its pre-tax incomes DECLINE over four decades.
How building the wall will rely on the entangled economy of the Mexican-American border region.
“Dark matter” is a big deal in the American financial balance with the rest of the world. In visible trade the situation is the dramatic
How POTUS came to view the world through a mindset shaped by the 1950s and the 1980s.
How many low-income students to America’s Colleges recruit? How many of them make it into the top 20 % or top 1 % of the income distribution? Which colleges reproduce inequality? Which colleges are vehicles of social mobility? ESSENTIAL reading.
Trump’s border wall will be a massive engineering project. For all its perverse nationalism it cannot escape the logic of global capitalism. It will be paid for by American consumers and the main supplier of the raw materials will be Cemex, a globalized Mexican cement corporation.
From McDonalds to Woodrow Wilson by way of the crisis of the liberal order. Prospect podcast featuring Fukuyama, Steavenson and Tooze in conversation about End
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