The conventional measures of economic well-being are dangerously limited, and we are seeing the resulting policy consequences play out daily.
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INET grantee Vamsi Vakulabharanam describes his work to gather parallel social threads—such as class, caste, gender and religion—to better understand the mechanisms of inequality in India, and why this can lead to better outcomes around the world.
Why are we incentivizing wealth at the expense of health?
Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged.
Ying Chen discusses her work to better understand development, labor and environmental impact in the Global South, focusing in particular on the realities of Chinese economic policy as it has evolved.
Miles Corak discusses the fraying of the American Dream, and the power of inequality to disrupt the promise of social mobility.
Interdisciplinarity is critical in pushing the humanities to better understand humans.
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Has the solution to global tensions been waiting at home all along?
All things can be coded as capital,
with the right legal coding.