A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism

Austerity has nurtured resentments that will likely make the populist right PVV the biggest winner in the March 15 election — but without the majority or the allies needed to govern

The U.S. economy is widely diagnosed with two ‘diseases’: a secular stagnation of potential U.S. growth, and rising income and job polarization. The two diseases have a common root inthe demand shortfall, originating from the ‘unbalanced’ growth between technologically ‘dynamic’ and ‘stagnant’ sectors.

To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”

Report to the Institute for New Economic Thinking on the statistical measurement and policy implications of the compensation of the highest- paid U.S. corporate executives

Social scientists have stubbornly held that money and election outcomes are at most weakly linked. New research provides clear evidence to the contrary.

This paper critically analyzes voting patterns in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths

Why Italy’s woes are a warning to the whole Eurozone

This paper traces the evolution of the concept of the cyclically adjusted budget from the 1930s to the present.

Training first-world children for a third-world life

I describe the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis.

Growing income inequality is threatening the American middle class, and the middle class is vanishing before our eyes. We are still one country, but the stretch of incomes is fraying the unity of our nation.