Will We Always Have the Poor Among Us?
To end poverty, public policy must provide much more than economic resources
What’s (Still) Wrong with Executive Compensation in America
Executive compensation reflects neither productivity nor demand for skills in a particular sector. Yet some CEOs are still receiving 881 percent raises.
A Brief History of the Income Tax
The significance of the date April 15 is not lost on anyone in the modern United States. But ...
America: A Welfare Nation
We think of welfare as social security for the economically vulnerable. Maybe it's time we rightfully enlarge what we mean by the term.
GMOs, Inequality and World Hunger
In a 2008 paper for the British Journal of Criminology, Reese Walters looked at GMO crops from an entirely different perspective.
The Road to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century hit the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction ...