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Structural changes in the U.S. economy highlight anew the gray areas of continued racial bias and discrimination in American workplaces

May 8, 2024 | equitablegrowth.org | Kate Bahn |Mark Paul |Darrick Hamilton |William Darity Jr.

Four years after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by three city police officers and the Black Lives Matter movement led large-scale protests across the country, workplaces across the U.S. economy are dropping their efforts to promote racial diversity, equity, and inclusion, spurred in part by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
The Story of Freedom

Dec 12, 2023 | bostonreview.net | Mark Paul

Aziz Rana rightly contends that the fight for freedom is more than a simple narrative sparring match. Words are powerful, but delivering meaningful and lasting freedom requires building the institutions necessary to deliver the goods—among them labor unions, high-quality public schools, and the protection and expansion of truly democratic processes.
The Ends of Freedom

Jul 18, 2023 | audible.com | Mark Paul |Mike Konczal |Peter Temin |Joseph Stiglitz

An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights—and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans. Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life’s necessities, those basic conditions for the “pursuit of happiness”. For others, freedom meant the civil and political rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to the marketplace—nothing more.
America’s Other Freedom

Jun 30, 2023 | democracyjournal.org | Mark Paul

For many—perhaps most—Americans, the meaning of freedom can be found in the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, our hallowed Bill of Rights. Penned to secure ratifying votes from states wary of a strong central government, the Bill of Rights enumerated the protections citizens could expect to enjoy in their new nation.
Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

May 17, 2023 | znetwork.org | Mark Paul

For example, there is abundant evidence that rent control does not constrain housing supply. One study of rent control in New Jersey—a state with a rich history of embracing rent control—found that, over three decades, rent control increased housing supply (though this was largely attributed to landlords slicing up larger units into smaller ones).
Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

May 16, 2023 | portside.org | Mark Paul

As any Econ 101 student can tell you, rent control is bad. This is because rent control is a price control, and price controls artificially distort well-functioning markets, resulting in a mismatch between supply and demand and the creation of the dreaded deadweight loss triangle all budding economist learn about.
Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.

May 16, 2023 | prospect.org | Mark Paul

As any Econ 101 student can tell you, rent control is bad. This is because rent control is a price control, and price controls artificially distort well-functioning markets, resulting in a mismatch between supply and demand and the creation of the dreaded deadweight loss triangle all budding economist learn about.
We Need an Economic Bill of Rights

May 12, 2023 | jacobin.com | Mark Paul

Although the United States is richer and more productive than it ever has been, over forty million Americans live in poverty — roughly the same number as in 1933, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office during the height of the Great Depression, and 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson announced his “war on poverty.” Despite these troubling numbers, many economists assert the American Dream is alive and well, and that inequality is simply the price we as a nation must pay for...