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By Adam Rifkin

Economics is about incentives.

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Lack of mobility due to lack of housing liquidity is a core part of the American dream that has changed, and it helps explain why Trump won.

Inequality Is Killing the American Dream, Quantified at Last

How Two Economists Got Direct Access to IRS Tax Records

Prop 13: Winners and Losers From America's Legendary Taxpayer Revolt

The productivity paradox: Why we're getting more innovation but less growth...

There’s a devastatingly simple explanation for America’s economic mess

Technology has gotten so cheap that it is now more economically viable to buy robots than it is to pay people $5 a day. ~Kaila Cobin

Are Index Funds Eating the World?

Data Geeks Are Taking Over Economics

America's explosion of income inequality, in one amazing animated chart

Which Thinkers Will Define Our Future?

Mom’s Invisible Hand

Why the unnecessary Brexit vote hurt us all, by Felix Salmon

Why Are White People So Pessimistic About The Economy? by FiveThirtyEight

A guy just transcribed 30 years of for rent ads in SF. Here's what it taught us about housing prices, by Michael Andersen...

How (Supposedly) Rational People Make Decisions, by Economist Gregory Mankiw

How Bad Biology is Killing the Economy

A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts

Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

200 Years of Economic History of 200 Countries in 1 Minute, by BBC Documentary Overpopulated

Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use

Report: 74% Of Billionaire Wealth From Rent-Seeking

California’s $15-an-hour minimum wage may accelerate automation.

Manufacturing jobs are never coming back.

Nobel Prize Economist Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created.

The 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income

What Does Gun Violence Really Cost

The World in 2016 Has Too Much Oil, by Forbes

The history of U.S. government debt, 1790-2015

Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.

Our Economy Explained in Cookies

Too poor to retire and too young to die

Robots are hurting middle class workers, by Larry Summers

Is the price of oil falling because it is becoming obsolete?

When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women

$250,000 a Year Is Not Middle Class - NYTimes

Microloans Don’t Solve Poverty

Here’s an amazingly simple way to cut poverty in the U.S.

The World’s New Population Time Bomb: Too Few People

Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households

Who Turned My Blue State Red?

Americans greatly overestimate social and economic mobility.

Next financial crash is coming... and before we've fixed flaws from last one.

After Years Out of a Job, Older Workers Find a Way Back In

No, there aren't more than 90 million Americans unemployed.

Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds

Middle class Americans: Not so wealthy by global standards

The only way shown to drive Medicare costs down, and why it wasn't adopted...

Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics

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