Urbanomics

Matt Stoller on business concentration in agriculture in the US The monopoly problem farmers face is really bad. On the input side they mus...

Peggy Hollinger points to an interesting likely trend in the airline industry, about shifting of passengers from planes to railways for sho...

1. Industrial policy in the US The chips and Science Act , a $280bn effort to shore up America’s microchips industry... the administration ...

NBER summary of the research by Gabriel Zucman et al shows that close to 40% of profits booked by multinational corporations outside their ...

Happy New Year! I'll kick off the new year with a post questioning some principles of one of the most powerful enduring narratives, on e...

1. A headline story of the year was the return of inflation and high interest rates. US inflation hit 9.1% in June, the highest since 1981. ...

Fascinating graphic on  income distributions and income gaps  in 16 countries. India has the highest income gap between the 90th and 99th pe...