This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …

Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the … the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for …

argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple …The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps …