Inequality Archives - Center for Economic and Policy Research

CEPR investigates economic and social policies that affect, as well as methods of measuring, levels of hardship, poverty and inequality in the U.S.

CEPR investiga las políticas económicas y sociales que afectan, así como los métodos para medir, los niveles de adversidad, pobreza y desigualdad en los Estados Unidos.

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InequalityIntellectual Property NYT Wants to Talk About Higher Wages, but Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Real Reasons Wages are Low

/ November 29, 2020

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Economic Crisis and RecoveryInequalityIntellectual Property Why are the Free Traders All Protectionists? Vaccines and Sharing Knowledge (Fun for Thanksgiving)

But the fact remains, protection for manufactured goods is universally derided in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Protectionism in the form of patent and copyright monopolies, which is hugely more costly, is never even

Dean Baker / November 25, 2020

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InequalityIntellectual Property News for Bill Gates: Capitalism Is Still Capitalism Without Patent Monopolies

Gates apparently is not aware that the U.S. government paid for Moderna's research and testing costs for its vaccines.

Dean Baker / November 23, 2020

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InequalityUS Universal Lessons from Illinois’s Fair Tax Failure: How a Rich Minority Wins the Majority Vote

By looking at what happened in Illinois, we can distill broader political factors that are applicable across the country.

Sepideh Jessica Vasseghi / November 19, 2020