经济增长
Analysing inequality in three dimensions
When social scientists, policymakers, and pundits talk about inequality, it’s important to specify what kind inequality they are actually talking about. Most of them will be talking about...
Nick Bunker
Nick Bunker is a Policy Research Associate with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
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经济增长
Two economists have developed a new measure that could be an improvement on GDP
Gross domestic product often gets confused for a measure of economic well-being. That’s understandable given how often GDP or GDP growth rates gets held up as the key measure of economic ...
教育与技能
What school lunches tell us about educational achievement and inequality
The intersection of income inequality and education is one of the more troubling features of the U.S. economy. Research by Stanford University economist Sean Reardon shows a rising educat...
经济增长
US wage growth has now returned to pre-recession levels
Late last week the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest data from the Employment Cost Index, providing policymakers with new insight into shifts in the U.S. labor market si...
经济增长
If someone gave you $10 right now, what would you do with it?
I asked before, “If someone handed you $10 right now, what would you do with it? Would you decide to spend it right away? Or would you stash it away? Or some combination of the two?” How ...
经济增长
The Great Recession ended 7 years ago, but its impact on US productivity still isn't clear
In macroeconomics, there’s a tendency for economists to separate the short-term and the long term. For instance, recessions don’t (or rather, shouldn’t) affect the long-term growth rate o...
新兴技术
Artificial intelligence: opportunity or challenge for the US economy?
Jason Furman, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers gave a speech last week on the “opportunities and challenges” presented by artificial intelligence. The potential ch...
教育与技能
Innovators should be encouraged earlier. Much earlier, says a new report
The U.S. economy could use more innovation these days. Despite the proliferation of apps and concerns about a robot takeover of the labor market, U.S. productivity growth just isn’t very ...
公平、多样性和包容性
"A game of musical chairs": Male labour force participation in the US
One of the most discussed problems in the U.S. labor market in recent years is the decline in the labor force participation rate, or the share of the population that’s employed or activel...
经济增长
Does inequality make recessions worse?
In a recent poll of prominent economists, the IGM Forum at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business asked about the effects of unconventional U.S. monetary policy on the level o...
经济增长
What is the natural rate of interest? And how can we determine it?
Knut Wicksell is not a name you’d expect to pop up in a Wall Street Journal article, even if it’s about a Federal Reserve meeting. But the name of the late 19th and early 20thcentury Swed...
工作与未来
Something strange is going on in the US jobs market
One of the more disconcerting trends in the U.S. jobs market since the end of the Great Recession is the divergence between the rate of hiring and the rate at which employers are offering...
企业向善
The United States has lost its dynamism. Could this be the reason?
The United States is a less economically dynamic place than it was decades ago. That may seem like an outrageous statement to make in the era of unicorn startups, increasing revitalizatio...
经济增长
How does inequality change innovation?
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” That dictum is apt for more than just bank robbery, though. If you’re running a busi...
金融和货币体系
Has the decline of labour's share of income paused?
The decline of the labor share of income in the United States—a topic well covered in this space—seems to have paused. As Neil Irwin points out at The Upshot, the data over the past year ...