Posts Tagged ‘the rich’

Senator Sanders’ Socialism (Nancy Folbre)

(1) Nancy Folbre at the New York Times’ Economix: A nice piece about Sanders’ filibuster against the tax compromise: When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition to tax cuts for the rich, he quickly became a YouTube and ...Read more.

Various items

(1) Emmanuel Saez wins a MacArthur fellowship. With co-author Thomas Piketty, Saez has done great research on income inequality in the United States.  Read about the fellowship here.  An accessible version of their research here.  Who knew he was only 37? I guess younger than me no longer counts as particularly young, alas… (2) D&S ...Read more.