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Decades before it caught on with other economists, Sadie Alexander was the first economist to recommend a government jobs guarantee in the US

U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the the erosion of human and social capital. A serious growth slowdown is coming.

Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.

Until 2008, rising home values gave the middle class a cushion amid growing income inequality. But following the financial crisis, that wealth has failed to return.

Instead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks

Economists who dismiss inequality as a problem secondary to poverty miss the point: Inequality is part of what drives poverty

Getting published in a top five economics journal is a near-requirement for tenure. But it’s a poor measure of research quality within a system that punishes creativity.

Despite disparate policy beliefs, MMT and orthodox macro rely on many of the same theoretical foundations

In Europe and the United States, stock-based compensation discourages long-term corporate sustainability

A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers