Inequality and Its Discontents
Oct 21, 2020 examines trends in US income growth and social mobility to determine where the real problems lie.
Michael J. Boskin
Michael J. Boskin is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was Chairman of George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993, and headed the so-called Boskin Commission, a congressional advisory body that highlighted errors in official US inflation estimates.
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Inequality and Its Discontents 
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