This week in political economy.
House and Senate Republicans released the final version of their tax bill late Friday afternoon. The Washington Post breaks...
A new paper finds that America is full of "lost Einsteins" among women, minorities, and low-income groups: high performers who never become inventors because...
A new paper challenges Thomas Piketty’s portrayal of an income distribution dominated at the top by passive rentiers who do nothing to earn their money,...
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
A new paper argues that the decline of the labor and capital shares, as well as the decline in low-skilled wages and other economic trends, have been...
A Stigler Center panel debates: Is rising inequality connected to monopolies, rent-seeking, and concentration?
The rise in wealth and income inequality has been at the forefront of...
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, Harvard economist F.M. Scherer answers questions about concentration, antitrust, tech giants, and inequality. "Antitrust agencies have not taken sufficient...
Concentration of power in supply chains is a prime mechanism by which dominant companies consolidate power and profits.
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was...
American capitalism was built on racial exploitation, from the enslavement of Black people to institutionalized discrimination and its structural impact on our...