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Benjamin Franklin said the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Sifting through receipts, deciphering confusing codes, and filling out forms is an annu…
Daron Acemoglu of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role income inequality may have played in creating the financial crisis. Raghuram Rajan in…
Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the middle class, poverty, and inequality. Many economists and pundits argu…
Richard Burkhauser of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the middle class. Drawing on recently published papers, Burkha…
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues and negatives of a basic guaranteed income--giving every American adul…
Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on inequality and the distribution of income i…
Why are fewer men working over the last few decades? Is a universal basic income a good policy for coping with the loss of employment? Economist Edward Glaeser …
Economist and author Daniel Klein of George Mason University talks about the ethics of working and the potential for our working lives to make the world a bette…
PureSky Energy's McLean 1 project brings low-income community solar to Illinois. Learn how remote solar arrays cut utility bills by 10% to 30%.
New Iranian cars list at $4,300, but lottery odds and import taxes push the real cost beyond most earners' reach. Learn why and how to decide.
