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Working PaperSetting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices: What the Medicare Negotiators Need to Know About Innovation and Financialization
Sep 2024
Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
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Working Paper SeriesChina’s Development Path: Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Aug 2022
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
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Working Paper SeriesMeasuring the Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach
Mar 2022
Using aggregate campaign finance data as well as a Transformer based text embedding model we can predict roll call votes for legislation in the US Congress with more than 90% accuracy.
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Working paperEquality Denied: Tech and African Americans
Feb 2022
EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?
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Working Paper SeriesIndustrial Feudalism and Wealth Inequalities
Jan 2022
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility become severely diminished
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Working Paper SeriesThe Knife Edge Election of 2020: American Politics Between Washington, Kabul, and Weimar
Nov 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Working PaperThe Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class
May 2021
How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it
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Working Paper SeriesLocal David Versus Global Goliath: Populist Parties and the Decline of Progressive Politics in Italy
Jan 2021
This paper analyzes the role of local spending, particularly on social welfare, and local inequality as factors in the Italian political crisis following the adoption in 2011 of more radical national austerity measures.
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Working Paper SeriesPredicting United States Policy Outcomes with Random Forests
Nov 2020
In this paper we analyze the Gilens dataset using the complementary tools of Random Forest classifiers (RFs), from Machine Learning.
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Working Paper SeriesEmployment and Earnings of African Americans Fifty Years After: Progress?
Jul 2020
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
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Working Paper SeriesHow the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 2020
In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.
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Working Paper SeriesThe Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
May 2020
The popular discontent and rise of ‘populist’ political parties is closely related to the failure of New Labor to navigate social democracy’s dilemma.
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Working Paper SeriesHow Much Can the U.S. Congress Resist Political Money? A Quantitative Assessment
Apr 2020
The links between campaign contributions from the financial sector and switches to a pro-bank vote were direct and substantial