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Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,
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@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren
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Douglass North and Timur Kuran: Institutions and Economic Performance
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35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
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Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
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Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
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Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
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Progress and Incidence: The incidence of a capital-income tax
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James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
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Jon Elster on the lack of gender analysis in the labour theory of value
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WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM DOES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
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Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
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