How can one defend the 1%?
By Guillaume Allègre In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives[1], Harvard Professor and bestselling textbook author Greg Mankiw defends the income earned […]
Inequality
Does inequality hurt economic performance?
By Francesco Saraceno Economic theory has long neglected the effects of income distribution on the performance of the economy. Students were taught right from Introduction […]
A boost for the minimum wage or for income support?
By Guillaume Allègre The government has made a commitment to an exceptional, “reasonable” boost to the French minimum wage, the “SMIC”, and to indexation based […]