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The gender-wage gap is not a newly discovered phenomenon, but recently, pay inequality has been pushed into the limelight by […]

The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century? Edited by Dan Breznitz, John Zysman . Oxford, […]

Excise tax on cigarettes can vary greatly from state to state. According to the National Conference of State Legislature, state […]

How do scholars define status? Alessandro Piazza and Fabrizio Castellucci, both of Bocconi University, point out in their article “Status in […]

Read more in the Special Issue just published in Public Finance Review. Here are some of the questions that the […]

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

The Pew Research Center reported this week that Americans—in particular, younger folks in their 30s—are now more worried than they […]

The Wall Street Journal observed this week that as baby boomers face an unemployment crisis, a growing number of younger […]

Volume 40, No. 3 (May 2012) of Public Finance Review (PFR) is now available online. The latest issue of PFR examines […]

Rich households found to be the real beneficiaries of economic prosperity Los Angeles, CA (February 28, 2012) People all over […]

The Review of Radical Political Economics has released a new issue! To view all of the articles, please click here. […]

This was the question posed at the most recent ‘Myths and Realities’ debate hosted this week in London by the […]