We’ve Been Underestimating Discrimination
New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.
We’ve Been Underestimating DiscriminationHow the housing boom masked a weak job market
The economic downturn exposed a secular, decades-old downward trend in manufacturing employment
Research suggests that housing contributed little to the aggregate increase in nonemployment in the 2000s, while manufacturing contributed about 40%.
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo, “Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non- Employment,” Working paper, April 2013.
New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.
We’ve Been Underestimating DiscriminationEconomist Amy Finkelstein offers her solutions for the problems plaguing the US healthcare system.
Capitalisn’t: Rebooting American Health CareBooth’s Raghuram G. Rajan and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times discuss the pressures faced by democratic systems.
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