Raghuram Rajan
Is Inequality Inhibiting Growth?
CHICAGO – To understand how to achieve a sustained recovery from the Great Recession, we need to understand its causes. And identifying caus…
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Inequality has become a crucial topic for everyone from economists, central bankers, and bond traders to the Occupy movement and the political leaders who must respond to it. Project Syndicate contributors, including the world’s pre-eminent economic practitioners and academics, examine the causes and consequences of growing disparities in income and wealth.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Price of Inequality
NEW YORK – America likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity, and others view it in much the same light. But, while we can all think…
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Kemal Derviş
The Inequality Trap
WASHINGTON, DC – As evidence mounts that income inequality is increasing in many parts of the world, the problem has received growing attent…
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Kenneth Rogoff
Jeremy Lin and the Political Economy of Superstars
CAMBRIDGE – The biggest news around Cambridge in recent weeks has been Jeremy Lin, the Harvard economics graduate who has shocked the Nation…
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Johannes Jütting
The Middle Class Goes Global
PARIS – In the twentieth century, the American dream of a middle-class life inspired the world. Now, in the twenty-first, we are moving at h…
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Eswar Prasad
A Clarion Call for Emerging Markets
ITHACA – With 2012 underway, it is worth reflecting on how a decade of strong economic growth in emerging markets led to last year’s resound…
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Kemal Derviş
Global Imbalances and Domestic Inequality
WASHINGTON, DC – Despite years of official talk about addressing global current-account imbalances, they remained one of the world’s main ec…
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Pranab Bardhan
More Unequal than Others
BERKELEY – Inequality is on the public’s mind almost everywhere nowadays. Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies, India and the Unit…
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J. Bradford DeLong
The 70% Solution
BERKELEY – Via a circuitous Internet chain – Paul Krugman of Princeton University quoting Mark Thoma of the University of Oregon reading the…
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Andres Velasco
Jobs for Justice
SANTIAGO – “Do you feel it trickle down?” ask the protesters occupying Wall Street and parts of financial districts from London to San Franc…
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