Inequality & Distribution

There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.

Shaped by the 2008 financial crisis, a new generation of economists is expanding the boundaries of economic thinking on credit cycles, private debt, and financial stability.

How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found

A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a job killer—if we use it right

The implications of rising inequality are massive. Economists need to tackle it together.

Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, delivers the annual Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism.

The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change

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

Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy

Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths

For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.

For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.