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Our trade policy over the last four decades has been quite explicitly designed to redistribute income upward. This was the point of deals like NAFTA, or admitting China to the WTO
The key to lowering CEO pay is to change the incentives for directors
An Opportunity to Refashion the Intellectual Property Regime?
Robert Samuelson and his deficit hawk friends cut workers’ before-tax income by 10 percent with their push for austerity, which helped to put a check on effective stimulus
We can do better than extending a relic of the feudal guild system
The pharmaceutical industry will fight like crazy to block any efforts to modernize the system of financing drug research
The state of Colorado paid over $1 billion to investment managers over an eight-year period to lose the state money
If CEOs were again paid 20 to 30 times the wages of ordinary workers, instead of the current 200 to 300 times, it would have an impact on pay structures throughout the economy
Clearly, policy must focus more heavily on incomes before taxes and transfers if the majority is to share equitably in economic growth
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