My 92nd St. Y debate with Robert Kuttner on income inequality
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Here goes: Ex po st, the Manhattan audience swung thirty (!) points in my favor, compared to the pre-debate poll. This was a fun event for me.
My 92nd St. Y debate with Robert Kuttner on income inequality
Should we keep the wealthy non-diversified? (from my email)
27 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Byrne Hobart writes to me: One of the purposes of inheritance taxes is to avoid compounding intergenerational wealth. But The Missing Billionaires points out that if all of America’s millionaires had put their money in broad market indices in 1900, their heirs would number 16,000 billionaires, even accounting for taxes, splitting estates among multiple children, etc. So […]
Should we keep the wealthy non-diversified? (from my email)
The Piketty-Saez-Zucman response to Auten and Splinter
17 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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A number of you have asked me what I think of their response. The first thing I noticed is that Auten and Splinter make several major criticisms of PSZ, and yet PSZ respond to only one of them. On the others they are mysteriously silent. The second thing I noticed is that PSZ have been […]
The Piketty-Saez-Zucman response to Auten and Splinter
America’s top one percent has not been seeing a rising income share
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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. The opener is this: Can a single self-published paper really refute decades of work by three famous economists? If the paper is the modestly titled “Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends,” then the answer — with qualifications — is yes. And…
America’s top one percent has not been seeing a rising income share
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion well worth watching
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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The Myth Of American Inequality
02 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
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Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
01 May 2022 Leave a comment
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Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality | Conversations with Tyler
21 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Debating Income Inequality: What’s the Problem? What’s the Solution?
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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The Economics of Inequality | John Cochrane
30 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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The 2012 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
21 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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I usually stop reading at the first mention of the @UN
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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