Without a little inflation, bad investment drives out good. Moderate inflation enhances productivity by functioning like a scarecrow: the rise in nominal mortgage rates deters myopic home buyers, who naively watch the nominal interest rate (in its guise as the payment-to-income ratio) rather...

Of the four basic theorems of CRS trade theory, only the Stolper-Samuelson theorem has an application to the very short run. On impact, a small tariff increases the disposable real income of a representative portfolio if and only if the protected sector is more capital intensive than average....

In this model of contested exchange, ambitious salaried yuppies (in accounting, consulting, engineering, higher education, investment banking, law, management, marketing, medicine, or other professions) inevitably toil on the verge of depression, much as wage workers once toiled on the verge of...

If prejudice divides and weakens the working class, then capital owners can impose more inequality without fearing unified resistance. Frustrated workers turn on each other as scapegoats, blaming their economic hardship on diversity (in terms of race, religion, ethnicity, immigration status,...