Confronting a Post-Middle Class America
The decline of the middle class is often blamed on increasing wealth concentration among the highest earners. There are several problems with this theory, but the focus on wealth concentration at the...
View ArticleObama’s Minimum Wage Gambit
The wage floor has no relationship to the most serious problem affecting low earners – our systemic failure to prepare workers to meet the exploding demand for technical fields. It takes years to...
View ArticleAutomation is Changing Economics, Politics and Life
The winners in the second machine age are all in some sense artists, whether they post their work on YouTube, github, or the New York Times. Those liberal arts degrees may deserve more respect than...
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