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The perfect tax system
You might think that the days of the glorious, all-knowing economist are behind us, in the midst of savagely bleak times at least partly caused by economistic hubris. But clearly there’s still a space in our hearts to hear economists … Continue reading
Get your sports team a tax lawyer
Looking at the behaviour of elite sportsmen is a favourite hobby of economists – aside from many economists being sports geeks (I’m not in a position to call names here…), there’s a wealth of publicly available data just waiting to … Continue reading
Most American Households Have Tight Budgets
Congressional Republicans who favor raising taxes on the rich to reduce the deficit are harder to find these days than salad at a state fair. One argument that is commonly made is that we cannot expect the rich to pay … Continue reading
Regulation, Taxes, and Freedom
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the Human Development Project, a project sponsored by the Social Science Research Council to develop indicators of individual wellbeing across U.S. states and demographic groups. The basic idea is to … Continue reading
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Revisiting American Inequality: Did the Poor Really Get Poorer?
American income inequality is commonly told as a story of divergence: since the 1970s, the share of income going to the top of income distribution has skyrocketed, while the share of income going to the bottom of the income distribution … Continue reading
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Tagged income dispersion, insurance, measurement, taxes, welfare payments
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Rolling Back the Submerged State
If you listened carefully to President Obama’s big policy speech on the national debt yesterday you may have heard this: “The tax code is also loaded up with spending on things like itemized deductions. And while I agree with the … Continue reading
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Budgeting in Bad Faith
There’s an honest debate that needs to happen in the United States about reducing a large and growing national debt. Instead, we have major confusion at the moment, and most of the seeds have been sown by Representative Paul Ryan … Continue reading
Give some bread back to the bakers
One of the disturbing features of American income inequality is the rising disconnection between the wages of ordinary workers and the compensation of a small cadre of executives. Despite huge gains in productivity over the last three decades, median wages … Continue reading
Over the Wire
Dr David Parenti: We get the grant, we study the problem, we propose solutions. If they listen, they listen. If they don’t, it still makes for great research. What we publish on this is gonna get a lot of attention. … Continue reading
