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    <title>The Political Economy of AI: A Syllabus - by Henry Farrell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T13:16:57+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:subject>have_read large_language_models_(so_called) artificial_intelligence political_economy class_struggles_in_america american_hegemony intellectual_property farrell.henry kith_and_kin to_teach:statistics_and_generative_ai</dc:subject>
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"We Have Never Been Woke details how the language of social justice is increasingly used to justify this elite—and to portray the losers in the knowledge economy as deserving their lot because they think or say the “wrong” things about race, gender, and sexuality. Al-Gharbi’s point is not to accuse symbolic capitalists of hypocrisy or cynicism. Rather, he examines how their genuine beliefs prevent them from recognizing how they contribute to social problems—or how their actions regularly provoke backlash against the social justice causes they champion.
"A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively."]]></description>
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    <title>Robert Brenner’s Unprofitable Theory of Global Stagnation</title>
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- The praise for Shaikh seems very exaggerated.
- This makes it sound like Marx's definition of profit rate is profits/(capital stock), like our modern return on investment, where the numerator is a flow but the denominator is a stock.  (ROI has dimensions of 1/[time].)  In fact Marx's profit rate is profit/(sum of direct labor costs plus inputs plus depreciation/amortization), so both numerator and denominator are flows.  (Marxian rate of profit is dimensionless.)  This is related to the way Marx's value theory assumes constant returns and ignores fixed costs, in contrast to his (much more astute) theory of competition and technological change.  (See: [http://bactra.org/weblog/reading-capital.html] for infinitely more.)  This is _probably_ not worth going in to for a _Jacobin_-reading audience, but it contributes to the difficulty of empirically testing whether _Marx's_ profit rate is rising or falling.]]></description>
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    <title>Who is the Wealthiest Generation? – Economist Writing Every Day</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T05:51:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who-is-the-wealthiest-generation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Figure 2 is impressive data-collapse, but also a bit weird, since the country is much richer.]]></description>
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    <title>FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Noncompete Clauses, Which Hurt Workers and Harm Competition | Federal Trade Commission</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Last tag for the sections on unequal institutions.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | FTC Chair Lina Khan on the Problems with Noncompetes - The New York Times</title>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/ECTA19815">
    <title>Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality - Acemoglu - 2022 - Econometrica - Wiley Online Library</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T19:02:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/ECTA19815</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the U.S. wage structure over the last four decades are accounted for by relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation. We develop a conceptual framework where tasks across industries are allocated to different types of labor and capital. Automation technologies expand the set of tasks performed by capital, displacing certain worker groups from jobs for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes of a demographic group to the task displacement it experiences. We report robust evidence in favor of this relationship and show that regression models incorporating task displacement explain much of the changes in education wage differentials between 1980 and 2016. The negative relationship between wage changes and task displacement is unaffected when we control for changes in market power, deunionization, and other forms of capital deepening and technology unrelated to automation. We also propose a methodology for evaluating the full general equilibrium effects of automation, which incorporate induced changes in industry composition and ripple effects due to task reallocation across different groups. Our quantitative evaluation explains how major changes in wage inequality can go hand-in-hand with modest productivity gains."

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<dc:subject>to:NB inequality economics technological_change class_struggles_in_america color_me_skeptical to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:40bc70bbc23d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:technological_change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:color_me_skeptical"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w5093">
    <title>Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-09T19:00:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w5093</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density methods to appropriately 'reweighted' samples. The procedure provides a visually clear representation of where in the density of wages these various factors exert the greatest impact. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we find, as in previous research, that de-unionization and supply and demand shocks were important factors in explaining the rise in wage inequality from 1979 to 1988. We find also compelling visual and quantitative evidence that the decline in the real value of the minimum wage explains a substantial proportion of this increase in wage inequality, particularly for women. We conclude that labor market institutions are as important as supply and demand considerations in explaining changes in the U.S. distribution of wages from 1979 to 1988."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB density_estimation inequality class_struggles_in_america via:donsker_class to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:113ebd1f78bd/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-disentanglement">
    <title>Academia: Disentanglement - by Timothy Burke</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-16T22:31:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-disentanglement</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim being sensible as usual.
(Though he doesn't get into the mastery-of-jargon-as-cultural-capital point here, I know he's aware of it.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>burke.timothy us_culture_wars progressive_forces inequality class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:72b183aa0d94/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/93/4/1451/2332119">
    <title>Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market | Social Forces | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-01T04:12:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/93/4/1451/2332119</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor-market outcomes a difficult endeavor. In this research, I examine employment opportunities for white and black graduates of elite top-ranked universities versus high-ranked but less selective institutions. Using an audit design, I create matched candidate pairs and apply for 1,008 jobs on a national job-search website. I also exploit existing birth-record data in selecting names to control for differences across social class within racialized names. The results show that although a credential from an elite university results in more employer responses for all candidates, black candidates from elite universities only do as well as white candidates from less selective universities. Moreover, race results in a double penalty: When employers respond to black candidates, it is for jobs with lower starting salaries and lower prestige than those of white peers. These racial differences suggest that a bachelor's degree, even one from an elite institution, cannot fully counteract the importance of race in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB audit_studies sociology economics to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination racism class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:10a4b919d8cb/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://daniellaurison.com/research/political-professionals-and-american-democracy/">
    <title>Producing Politics: Inside The Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us - DANIEL LAURISON</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-27T04:24:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://daniellaurison.com/research/political-professionals-and-american-democracy/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Every two years, when national elections come around, Americans are inundated with campaigns’ communications: we see political advertisements on television and online, hear speeches and more ads on the radio, get countless flyers in the mail, receive robo-calls and live calls, and may even find a canvasser knocking on our doors.
"Political campaigns are a key way people are connected to politics; they are the moments in a democracy when politicians and their parties have the most incentive to communicate directly with potential voters, and when voters must make a decision about whom to support (or whether to vote at all). Campaigns’ influence goes beyond how people vote; campaigns also create a large part of the political culture through which individuals come to understand democratic politics.
"To understand campaigns, then, we need to understand the people whose work builds them: the political consultants and political operatives who make their living working for parties, campaigns, and allied partisan organizations. Just as the decision-makers at Netflix, HBO, and ABC determine what kinds of entertainment to provide, these campaign professionals curate our political options. The ways they shape the system and its offerings for voters come out of their perceptions of what is politically possible, which persuasion strategies are effective, how the electorate operates, and what will make sense to and be rewarded by the rest of the political world. Politicos’ beliefs about how politics ought to work and how regular people see politics shape the decisions, strategies, and public messaging of the party leaders, presidents, legislators, and governors they advise. To make sense of a political landscape that’s often baffling to outsiders, we need to know how and why campaign professionals do what they do.
"The book is based on over 70 (anonymous) interviews with campaign staff and consultants from both parties (and one independent), as well as an original database of over 2000 politicos’ careers, demographics, and backgrounds. I discuss who tends to run campaigns (the usual suspects: well-off white men), how they view their work (as a battle between teams as much as an effort to engage potential voters), and how the field is organized (it is very difficult for anyone to enter if they can’t work for little or no pay during or shortly after college)."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics class_struggles_in_america books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:75fd8e91d4bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/74/1/85/6199189?redirectedFrom=fulltext">
    <title>Worker surveillance capital, labour share, and productivity | Oxford Economic Papers | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-20T05:15:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/74/1/85/6199189?redirectedFrom=fulltext</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers’ job strain, while wage recognition encourages their engagement. Firms face a double trade-off between the two types of capital, and between incentives and labour costs. Under simple assumptions, up to a certain threshold, technological innovation improves productivity, wages, and profits at the same pace, leading to a flat labour share in income. Then, once the threshold is breached, profit-maximization initiates a transfer from productive capital to monitoring tools. This progressive shift generates a decline in the labour share and a productivity slowdown, despite greater job strain. The model suggests the possibility of a third phase in which productivity recovers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics class_struggles_in_america color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f4411236272a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w29374">
    <title>Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-18T15:55:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w29374</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We assemble new data that links people to their sources of capital income and develop new methods to estimate the degree of return heterogeneity within asset classes. Disaggregated fixed income data reveal that rich individuals earn much more of their interest income in higher-yielding forms, and have much greater exposure to credit risk. Consequently, in recent years, the interest rate on fixed income at the top is approximately three times higher than the average. Using firm-level characteristics to value firms, we find that twenty percent of total pass-through business wealth accrues to those with losses. We combine this new data on fixed income and pass-through business returns with refined estimates of C-corporation equity, housing, and pension wealth to deliver new capitalized wealth estimates. Our approach---which builds on Saez and Zucman (2016) and Bricker, Henriques, and Hansen (2018)---reduces bias because wealth and rates of return are correlated. From 1989 to 2016, the top 1%, 0.1%, and 0.01% wealth shares increased by 7.6, 5.1, and 3.0 percentage points, respectively, to 31.5%, 15.0%, and 7.0%. While these changes are less dramatic than some prior estimates, wealth is very concentrated: the top 1% holds nearly as much wealth as either the bottom 90% or the "P90-99" class. We discuss implications for income inequality measures, capital tax policy, and savings behavior."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics inequality econometrics class_struggles_in_america to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:587354373f1b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/diversified-energy-natural-gas-wells-methane-leaks-2021/">
    <title>Exposing Climate Threats From an Empire of Dying Gas Wells</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-13T03:10:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/diversified-energy-natural-gas-wells-methane-leaks-2021/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change class_struggles_in_america have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:89859ad9e89e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w29328">
    <title>Mortality Rates by College Degree Before and During COVID-19 | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T19:05:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w29328</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is now established that mortality and excess mortality from COVID-19 differed across racial and ethnic groups in 2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status within sex, age, and race/ethnic groups comparing 2020 with 2019. Mortality rates have increasingly differed by BA status in the US in recent years and there are good reasons to expect the gap to have widened further during the pandemic. Using publicly available provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics we find that mortality rates increased in 2020 over 2019 for those with and without a BA, irrespective of age, sex, or race/ethnicity. Although mortality rates increased by more for those without a BA, the ratio of mortality rates for those with and without a BA changed surprisingly little from 2019 to 2020. Among 60 groups (sex by race/ethnicity by age) that are available in the data, the ratio of mortality rates of those without a BA to those with a BA fell for more than half of the groups. Our results suggest that differences in the risk of infection were less important in structuring mortality by education than differences in the risk of death conditional on infection."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB have_read inequality coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- class_struggles_in_america economics demography case.anne deaton.angus</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:658de08e20ca/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w29241">
    <title>The Great Divide: Education, Despair and Death | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T18:51:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w29241</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college degree—the majority of American adults. For many less-educated Americans, the economy and society are no longer providing the basis for a good life. Concurrently, all-cause mortality in the US is diverging by education—falling for the college-educated and rising for those without a degree—something not seen in other rich countries. We review the rising prevalence of pain, despair, and suicide among Americans without a BA. Pain and despair created a baseline demand for opioids, but the escalation of addiction came from pharma and its political enablers. We examine “the politics of despair,” how less-educated people have abandoned and been abandoned by the Democratic Party. While healthier states once voted Republican in presidential elections, now the least-healthy states do. We review the evidence on whether or not deaths of despair have risen during the COVID pandemic. More broadly, excess mortality from COVID has not increased the ratio of all-cause mortality rates for those with and without a four-year degree, but has instead replicated the pre-existing mortality ratio."

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<dc:subject>to:NB have_read inequality class_struggles_in_america demography economics case.anne deaton.angus to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ebd28ae8abe0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/joshua-cohen-angus-deaton-deaths-despair">
    <title>Deaths of Despair | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T18:43:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/joshua-cohen-angus-deaton-deaths-despair</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Supplemental reading for the Case&Deaton assignment.]]></description>
<dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america demography inequality coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- deaton.angus interview have_read to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:69c8e283ef27/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/why-americans-are-dying-from-despair">
    <title>Why Americans Are Dying from Despair | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T18:43:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/why-americans-are-dying-from-despair</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Supplemental reading for the Case&Deaton assignment.]]></description>
<dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america inequality demography case.anne deaton.angus book_reviews to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6c83316a3fb3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-21st-century/">
    <title>Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T18:42:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-21st-century/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[---Too much to expect The Kids to read for the Case & Deaton assignment, but also I think every part of this is incorporated into the 2020 book.]]></description>
<dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america demography inequality economics case.anne deaton.angus to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:febcde4a087b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2024777118">
    <title>Life expectancy in adulthood is falling for those without a BA degree, but as educational gaps have widened, racial gaps have narrowed | PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-06T18:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2024777118</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is good, but it's a contributed paper by an Academy member, so suspicion must apply.  (Also, their standard for "data availability" is, to be charitable, typical for eminent academics of a certain age.)  OTOH, it's explicitly descriptive work, so unless they really botched the calculations (*cough* Reinhart and Rogoff *cough*) the findings should be sound enough.
--- Now the basis for HW 6.]]></description>
<dc:subject>demography inequality class_struggles_in_america to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination case.anne deaton.angus have_read to:NB have_taught</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:676cbe677f74/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_taught"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt20krz7n">
    <title>Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-22T14:28:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt20krz7n</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TODO: cross-link to reviews]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted to_read inequality transmission_of_inequality class_struggles_in_america to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination downloaded in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d11875123aec/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:downloaded"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/hidden-agenda#">
    <title>The hidden agenda | The University of Chicago Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-16T03:19:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/hidden-agenda#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An excerpt from The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, by arrangement with the University of Chicago Press. ©1987"]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read inequality racism the_american_dilemma public_policy class_struggles_in_america wilson.william_julius to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cd8ab3359f1d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:racism"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/12/homeless-camps-portland/">
    <title>Portland contends with an unfolding public health crisis as the pandemic relents: Homeless encampments - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-22T18:14:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/12/homeless-camps-portland/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america portland</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:394ea106e825/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2020/02/04/harvest-time-on-the-whirlwind-farm/">
    <title>Harvest Time on the Whirlwind Farm | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T16:10:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2020/02/04/harvest-time-on-the-whirlwind-farm/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The bits about "compliance" are especially interesting.  Also: one can imagine a lot of people who were all "Networks, not hierarchies!" back in the 1980s and 1990s going "Not like that!"]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america organizations burke.timothy have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8a2b972ca27e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:organizations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:burke.timothy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-24-562/">
    <title>The Labor Market Value of Taste: An Experimental Study of Class Bias in U.S. Employment | Sociological Science</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T02:36:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-24-562/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article investigates cultural forms of class bias in the middle-income U.S. labor market. Results from an audit study of employment discrimination in four U.S. cities reveal that cultural signals of class, when included in résumés, have a systematic effect on the callback rates of women applying to customer-facing jobs. For these women, displays of highbrow taste—the cultural signals of a higher-class background—generate significantly higher rates of employer callback than displays of lowbrow taste—the cultural signals of a lower-class background. Meanwhile, cultural signals of class have no systematic effect on the callback rates of male and/or non–customer-facing job applicants. Results from a survey-experimental study of 1,428 U.S. hiring managers suggest that these differing patterns of employer callback may be explained by the positive effect of higher-class cultural signals on perceptions of polish and competence and their negative effect on perceptions of warmth."

--- This could make sense, but the pile-up of interaction effects (job type : sex : class signals) makes me twitchy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB class_struggles_in_america inequality economics cultural_capital to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination via:allen_riddell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:41120cbb4166/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w28815">
    <title>Human Capitalists | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-17T14:37:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w28815</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The widespread and growing use of equity-based compensation has transformed high-skilled labor from a pure labor input to a class of "human capitalists." We show that high-skilled labor earns substantial income in the form of equity claims to firms' future dividends and capital gains. Equity-based compensation has dramatically increased since the 1980s, representing forty percent of total compensation to high-skilled labor in recent years. Ignoring equity income causes incorrect measurement of the returns to high-skilled labor, with substantial effects on macroeconomic trends. In our sample, including equity-based compensation in high-skilled labor income reduces the total decline in labor's wage-only income share relative to total value added since the 1980s by over 30%. The inclusion of equity-based compensation also eliminates the majority of the decline in the high-skilled labor share. Only by including equity pay does our structural estimation support complementarity between high-skilled labor and physical capital greater than that of Cobb and Douglas (1928). We also provide additional regression evidence of such complementarity."

--- I suspect some question-begging about "skill".]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics corporations financialization class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:883395b31442/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist">
    <title>Thinking like an Economist | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-12T16:00:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking Like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking—an “economic style of reasoning”—became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.
"Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics but also transformed law and policy. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment. Fearing waste and overspending, liberals reined in their ambitions for decades to come, even as Reagan and his Republican successors argued for economic efficiency only when it helped their own goals.
"A compelling account that illuminates what brought American politics to its current state, Thinking Like an Economist also offers critical lessons for the future. With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past—but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted coveted history_of_ideas economics economic_policy class_struggles_in_america in_NB books:in_library downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:98ed29255065/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://musaalgharbi.com/2021/05/05/book-announcement-we-have-never-been-woke/?subscribe=success#486">
    <title>Book Announcement: We Have Never Been Woke - Musa al-Gharbi</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-11T05:58:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://musaalgharbi.com/2021/05/05/book-announcement-we-have-never-been-woke/?subscribe=success#486</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is the New Class thesis, complete with the suggest that social workers with skimpy salaries but master's degrees may be more elite than philistine real-estate developers.  (To be clear, I have always had a soft spot for the New Class thesis.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:promised us_culture_wars class_struggles_in_america al-gharbi.musa via:rvenkat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e6bdf65bf1a0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper">
    <title>Adam Tooze · The Gatekeeper: Krugman’s Conversion · LRB 22 April 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-01T00:52:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>krugman.paul economics history_of_ideas tooze.adam us_politics class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america the_continuing_crises lives_of_the_scholars</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dde03606fa56/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bessemer-alabama-amazon-union/">
    <title>Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-11T19:22:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bessemer-alabama-amazon-union/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>unions labor class_struggles_in_america have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2053442e4b87/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo86586846">
    <title>Stephen King and American Politics, Blouin</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-03T00:56:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo86586846</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King’s prolific output reflects the major political concerns in America for the last fifty years. Stephen King and American Politics is the first sustained study of the complex ways in which King’s texts speak to their unique political moments. By exploring this aspect of the author’s popular works, readers might better understand the numerous crises that Americans currently face. Surveying King’s corpus to address a wide range of issues, including the spread of late capitalism, the Bush-Cheney doctrine, and the chaos of the populist present. Although his fiction may outwardly declare itself to be anti-political, political energies persist between the lines. Given the possibility of a political resurgence that haunts so many of his page-turners, Stephen King produces horror and hope in equal measure."

--- I can't decide if I want this to be illuminating, or a train-wreck of intercultural misunderstandings.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted literary_criticism king.stephen horror class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f8d0e5850029/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/">
    <title>Private Schools Are Indefensible - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-26T22:35:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[*looks guiltily at his own private school education, mutter "but they were practically hippies! the gym was a metal shed!" etc.*]]></description>
<dc:subject>inequality class_struggles_in_america education have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f3d20dddb013/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091">
    <title>The Next Shift — Gabriel Winant | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-24T22:01:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization.
"As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the care economy thrived. Hospitals and nursing homes went on hiring sprees. But many care jobs bear little resemblance to the manufacturing work the city lost. Unlike their blue-collar predecessors, home health aides and hospital staff work unpredictable hours for low pay. And the new working class disproportionately comprises women and people of color.
"Today health care workers are on the front lines of our most pressing crises, yet we have been slow to appreciate that they are the face of our twenty-first-century workforce. The Next Shift offers unique insights into how we got here and what could happen next. If health care employees, along with other essential workers, can translate the increasing recognition of their economic value into political power, they may become a major force in the twenty-first century."

--- JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1g4rv6k]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted american_history class_struggles_in_america pittsburgh labor books:in_library downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306608/aspen-and-the-american-dream">
    <title>Aspen and the American Dream by Jenny Stuber - Paperback - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-19T15:38:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306608/aspen-and-the-american-dream</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible" math of Aspen, Colorado, Stuber explores how middle-class people have found a way to live in this supergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials, Stuber shows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Colorado—the X-factor that makes middle-class life possible—is the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidies—including an extensive affordable housing program—that redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there.
"Stuber further examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall, Stuber argues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholders—citizens, government, developers, and vacationers—to preserve the town’s unique feel and value, and "keep Aspen, Aspen" in all its complex dynamics."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted class_struggles_in_america inequality cities</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dcdcededd27f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/i-dont-work-at-a-finishing-school/">
    <title>I don’t work at a finishing school | Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-04T15:25:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/i-dont-work-at-a-finishing-school/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[True, but (and I can't believe I'm going to say this) read the comment by Woit.

--- ETA: my incredulity is about recommending reading the comments at all, not about a comment by Woit in particular.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia class_struggles_in_america why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c687d2324b09/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190690">
    <title>Employer Consolidation and Wages: Evidence from Hospitals - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-28T17:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190690</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We test whether wage growth slows following employer consolidation by examining hospital mergers. We find evidence of reduced wage growth in cases where both (i) the increase in concentration induced by the merger is large and (ii) workers' skills are industry-specific. In all other cases, we fail to reject zero wage effects. We consider alternative explanations and find that the observed patterns are unlikely to be explained by merger-related changes besides labor market power. Wage growth slowdowns are attenuated in markets with strong labor unions, and wage growth does not decline after out-of-market mergers that leave local employer concentration unchanged."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics market_failures_in_everything class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6836e1f70ddf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/deflation-inflation">
    <title>Phenomenal World | The Deflationary Bloc</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-14T17:20:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/deflation-inflation</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_economy class_struggles_in_america feygin.yakov</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1d14fc8d1bd5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/21548677/trump-hispanic-vote-latinx">
    <title>Trump’s performance with Hispanic voters in 2020 should prompt some progressive rethinking - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-11T19:33:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/21548677/trump-hispanic-vote-latinx</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are places here where I am very much prepared to quibble, or at least add much larger asterisks.  (Exit polls, especially in a year when voting in person vs. mail was itself a political issue; the mostly-unconscious ecological inference in attributing high vote shares in mostly-Hispanic districts to Hispanic voters.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics race inequality class_struggles_in_america us_culture_wars racism yglesias.matthew ecological_inference_and_the_ecological_fallacy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6609c54ed434/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-law-justice/richard-ford-harvard-ruling-misses-point">
    <title>The Harvard Ruling Misses the Point | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-28T19:07:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-law-justice/richard-ford-harvard-ruling-misses-point</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america elites academia inequality reproduction_of_inequality ford.richard_thompson to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c0c782dcc26b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-22926-001">
    <title>Complex intersections of race and class: Among social liberals, learning about White privilege reduces sympathy, increases blame, and decreases external attributions for White people struggling with poverty. - PsycNET</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-21T21:26:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-22926-001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["White privilege lessons are sometimes used to increase awareness of racism. However, little research has investigated the consequences of these lessons. Across 2 studies (N = 1,189), we hypothesized that White privilege lessons may both highlight structural privilege based on race, and simultaneously decrease sympathy for other challenges some White people endure (e.g., poverty)—especially among social liberals who may be particularly receptive to structural explanations of inequality. Indeed, both studies revealed that while social liberals were overall more sympathetic to poor people than social conservatives, reading about White privilege decreased their sympathy for a poor White (vs. Black) person. Moreover, these shifts in sympathy were associated with greater punishment/blame and fewer external attributions for a poor White person’s plight. We conclude that, among social liberals, White privilege lessons may increase beliefs that poor White people have failed to take advantage of their racial privilege—leading to negative social evaluations."

--- The mere fact that this is a rather complicated interaction effect makes me want to wait to see how (if at all) it replicates...]]></description>
<dc:subject>class_struggles_in_america inequality social_engineering experimental_psychology to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cb210fa235c1/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-do-food-delivery-companies-lose-money.html">
    <title>Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money?</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-19T18:39:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-do-food-delivery-companies-lose-money.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a sensible explanation of why the companies aren't profitable (viz., they don't cure Baumol's cost disease --- a phrase that oddly doesn't appear here), but not of why they continue to be funded.]]></description>
<dc:subject>market_failures_in_everything cost_disease class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4ee74e31077f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage">
    <title>Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-19T18:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>market_failures_in_everything class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4f3cf9b95b2f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2534564">
    <title>Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-16T17:57:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2534564</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB economics have_read corruption market_failures_in_everything corporations akerlof.george romer.paul class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ee9f0ba3b2b3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/why-americans-dont-vote-their-class-bernie-sanders-marxist-electoral-theory.html">
    <title>Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class Anymore</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-15T20:43:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/why-americans-dont-vote-their-class-bernie-sanders-marxist-electoral-theory.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics class_struggles_in_america inequality progressive_forces have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:78b7c76da376/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/white-working-class-blues-on-deaths-of-despair-by-anne-case-and-angus-deaton">
    <title>White working-class blues</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-08T15:08:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/white-working-class-blues-on-deaths-of-despair-by-anne-case-and-angus-deaton</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gabriel Rossman on Case & Deaton]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted book_reviews rossman.gabriel class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7dd74339521f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/561/5714769">
    <title>Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-08T14:20:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/561/5714769</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We document the evolution of market power based on firm-level data for the U.S. economy since 1955. We measure both markups and profitability. In 1980, aggregate markups start to rise from 21% above marginal cost to 61% now. The increase is driven mainly by the upper tail of the markup distribution: the upper percentiles have increased sharply. Quite strikingly, the median is unchanged. In addition to the fattening upper tail of the markup distribution, there is reallocation of market share from low- to high-markup firms. This rise occurs mostly within industry. We also find an increase in the average profit rate from 1% to 8%. Although there is also an increase in overhead costs, the markup increase is in excess of overhead. We discuss the macroeconomic implications of an increase in average market power, which can account for a number of secular trends in the past four decades, most notably the declining labor and capital shares as well as the decrease in labor market dynamism."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics class_struggles_in_america market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2941701d854/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/645/5721266">
    <title>Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-08T14:18:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/645/5721266</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The fall of labor’s share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments typically rely on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In this article, we analyze micro panel data from the U.S. Economic Census since 1982 and document empirical patterns to assess a new interpretation of the fall in the labor share based on the rise of “superstar firms.” If globalization or technological changes push sales toward the most productive firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar firms, which have high markups and a low labor share of value added. We empirically assess seven predictions of this hypothesis: (i) industry sales will increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; (ii) industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in the labor share; (iii) the fall in the labor share will be driven largely by reallocation rather than a fall in the unweighted mean labor share across all firms; (iv) the between-firm reallocation component of the fall in the labor share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; (v) the industries that are becoming more concentrated will exhibit faster growth of productivity; (vi) the aggregate markup will rise more than the typical firm’s markup; and (vii) these patterns should be observed not only in U.S. firms but also internationally. We find support for all of these predictions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics class_struggles_in_america market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7896125a2739/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://ryanavent.substack.com/p/on-the-matter-of-skin-deep-socialists">
    <title>On the matter of skin-deep socialists - The Bellows</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-24T00:09:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ryanavent.substack.com/p/on-the-matter-of-skin-deep-socialists</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:db9723553fba/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77hb4">
    <title>The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-27T02:07:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77hb4</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted sociology cultural_criticism class_struggles_in_america inequality downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:656fc88c3d40/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:sociology"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:inequality"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158914/entitled">
    <title>Entitled | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-07T18:56:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158914/entitled</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s American arts scene has widened to embrace multitudes: photography, design, comics, graffiti, jazz, and many other forms of folk, vernacular, and popular culture. What led to this dramatic expansion? In Entitled, Jennifer Lena shows how organizational transformations in the American art world—amid a shifting political, economic, technological, and social landscape—made such change possible.
"By chronicling the development of American art from its earliest days to the present, Lena demonstrates that while the American arts may be more open, they are still unequal. She examines key historical moments, such as the creation of the Museum of Primitive Art and the funneling of federal and state subsidies during the New Deal to support the production and display of culture. Charting the efforts to define American genres, styles, creators, and audiences, Lena looks at the ways democratic values helped legitimate folk, vernacular, and commercial art, which was viewed as nonelite. Yet, even as art lovers have acquired an appreciation for more diverse culture, they carefully select and curate works that reflect their cosmopolitan, elite, and moral tastes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB art class_struggles_in_america sociology books:noted books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/deaths-of-despair-and-the-future-of-capitalism">
    <title>Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-08T20:16:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/deaths-of-despair-and-the-future-of-capitalism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In America today, deaths of despair—from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism—are on the rise among working-class whites. Life expectancy in the United States as a whole has now fallen for three years in a row, a drastic trend unique among wealthy nations and not seen since the great flu pandemic of 1918. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, shed light on the social and economic forces that make life harder for those without a college degree. They explain why, for those with less education, who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering.
"Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For those without a college degree, today’s America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a college degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of America’s workers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america inequality books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:783df426b0c6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/10/magazine/college-admissions-paul-tough.html">
    <title>What College Admissions Offices Really Want - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-17T13:17:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/10/magazine/college-admissions-paul-tough.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I would be very interested to know how CMU's admissions office navigates this.  (Also: how good are those models?)]]></description>
<dc:subject>education academia class_struggles_in_america have_read transmission_of_inequality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7c4e03a859fb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544">
    <title>The Great Reversal — Thomas Philippon | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-12T23:48:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, and growth.
"Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics. Ultimately he reached his surprising conclusion: American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on healthy competition. Sector after economic sector is more concentrated than it was twenty years ago, dominated by fewer and bigger players who lobby politicians aggressively to protect and expand their profit margins. Across the country, this drives up prices while driving down investment, productivity, growth, and wages, resulting in more inequality. Meanwhile, Europe—long dismissed for competitive sclerosis and weak antitrust—is beating America at its own game.
"Philippon, one of the world’s leading economists, did not expect these conclusions in the age of Silicon Valley start-ups and millennial millionaires. But the data from his cutting-edge research proved undeniable. In this compelling tale of economic detective work, we follow him as he works out the basic facts and consequences of industry concentration in the U.S. and Europe, shows how lobbying and campaign contributions have defanged antitrust regulators, and considers what all this means for free trade, technology, and innovation. For the sake of ordinary Americans, he concludes, government needs to return to what it once did best: keeping the playing field level for competition. It’s time to make American markets great—and free—again."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted economics political_economy economic_policy market_failures_in_everything class_struggles_in_america books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919310">
    <title>Unbound — Heather Boushey | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-12T23:43:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919310</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey, one of Washington’s most influential economic voices, insists nothing could be further from the truth. Presenting cutting-edge economics with journalistic verve, she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive United States marketplace for employers and employees alike.
"Boushey argues that inequality undermines growth in three ways. It obstructs the supply of talent, ideas, and capital as wealthy families monopolize the best educational, social, and economic opportunities. It also subverts private competition and public investment. Powerful corporations muscle competitors out of business, in the process costing consumers, suppressing wages, and hobbling innovation, while governments underfund key public goods that make the American Dream possible, from schools to transportation infrastructure to information and communication technology networks. Finally, it distorts consumer demand as stagnant wages and meager workplace benefits rob ordinary people of buying power and pushes the economy toward financial instability.
"Boushey makes this case with a clear, accessible tour of the best of contemporary economic research, while also injecting a passion for her subject gained through years of research into the economics of work–life conflict and policy work in the trenches of federal government. Unbound exposes deep problems in the U.S. economy, but its conclusion is optimistic. We can preserve the best of our nation’s economic and political traditions, and improve on them, by pursuing policies that reduce inequality—and by doing so, boost broadly shared economic growth."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics inequality political_economy class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4dcacf46e8ec/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-025852">
    <title>Global Wealth Inequality | Annual Review of Economics</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-26T23:50:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-025852</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax data show that wealth inequality has increased dramatically since the 1980s, with a top 1% wealth share of approximately 40% in 2016 versus 25–30% in the 1980s. Second, I discuss the fast-growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points toward a rise in global wealth concentration: For China, Europe, and the United States combined, the top 1% wealth share has increased from 28% in 1980 to 33% today, while the bottom 75% share hovered around 10%. Recent studies, however, may underestimate the level and rise of inequality, as financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from financial institutions, tax amnesties, and macroeconomic statistics of tax havens) can be leveraged to better capture the wealth of the rich."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB inequality class_struggles_in_america economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:36d35e722b9d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnkww">
    <title>Changing Inequality on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-24T16:01:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnkww</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted download inequality economics class_struggles_in_america to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9335a86059e8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25246/a-roadmap-to-reducing-child-poverty">
    <title>A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty | The National Academies Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-20T13:36:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25246/a-roadmap-to-reducing-child-poverty</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children’s ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society.
"A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years."

--- Presumably they explain why the solution is not "give their parents money".]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted inequality public_policy welfare_state class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:897808c5a808/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27987">
    <title>The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich | Cristobal Young</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-20T01:05:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27987</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a palpable concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away, taking their wealth with them. Many assume that the importance of location to a person's success is at an all-time low. Cristobal Young, however, makes the surprising argument that location is very important to the world's richest people. Frequently, he says, place has a great deal to do with how they make their millions.
"In The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight, Young examines a trove of data on millionaires and billionaires—confidential tax returns, Forbes lists, and census records—and distills down surprising insights. While economic elites have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. For the rich, ongoing economic potential is tied to the place where they become successful—often where they are powerful insiders—and that success ultimately diminishes both the incentive and desire to migrate.
"This important book debunks a powerful idea that has driven fiscal policy for years, and in doing so it clears the way for a new era. Millionaire taxes, Young argues, could give states the funds to pay for infrastructure, education, and other social programs to attract a group of people who are much more mobile—the younger generation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted inequality economics taxes class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5c3eb4f6c15c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjz015/5492274">
    <title>Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-07T19:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjz015/5492274</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across geographic markets with their differing comparative advantages across product groups. Counterfactual simulations show that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high-income households reduces nutritional inequality by only about 10%, while the remaining 90% is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the argument that policies to increase the supply of healthy groceries could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics food inequality class_struggles_in_america causal_inference</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fd30cd636779/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/6397/">
    <title>A lot of affluent liberals | Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-05T13:43:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/6397/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ah, home.]]></description>
<dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps montgomery_county_maryland nimbyism ellenberg.jordan running_dogs_of_reaction class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0fa8715675fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-09/wells-fargo-opened-a-couple-million-fake-accounts">
    <title>Wells Fargo Opened a Couple Million Fake Accounts - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T00:38:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-09/wells-fargo-opened-a-couple-million-fake-accounts</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cf. the (apocryphal) story of the Soviet factory assigned a quota of nails by weight in the five-year plan, and producing one gigantic nail.]]></description>
<dc:subject>management social_measurement class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fb1a9e6174ec/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo38181724">
    <title>The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics, Jones, Theriault, Whyman</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T00:19:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo38181724</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments.
"With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended burst of activity. They argue that the broadening of government responsibilities into new policy areas such as health care, civil rights, and gender issues and the increasing depth of existing government programs explain many of the changes in America politics since the 1970s. Increasing government attention to particular issues was motivated by activist groups. In turn, the beneficiaries of the government policies that resulted became supporters of the government’s activity, leading to the broad acceptance of its role. This broadening and deepening of government, however, produced a reaction as groups critical of its activities organized to resist and roll back its growth."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted american_history us_politics sociology public_policy class_struggles_in_america books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d2ffcc501e86/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319300096?via%3Dihub">
    <title>Free trade and opioid overdose death in the United States - ScienceDirect</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-29T18:47:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319300096?via%3Dihub</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. rose dramatically after 1999, but also exhibited substantial geographic variation. This has largely been explained by differential availability of prescription and non-prescription opioids, including heroin and fentanyl. Recent studies explore the underlying role of socioeconomic factors, but overlook the influence of job loss due to international trade, an economic phenomenon that disproportionately harms the same regions and demographic groups at the heart of the opioid epidemic. We used OLS regression and county-year level data from the Centers for Disease Controls and the Department of Labor to test the association between trade-related job loss and opioid-related overdose death between 1999 and 2015. We find that the loss of 1000 trade-related jobs was associated with a 2.7 percent increase in opioid-related deaths. When fentanyl was present in the heroin supply, the same number of job losses was associated with a 11.3 percent increase in opioid-related deaths."

--- I'm very skeptical about OLS here.  Something like nearest neighbors would be better here, but I'm not sure how to handle spatial correlation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read drugs whats_gone_wrong_with_america class_struggles_in_america econometrics statistics globalization to_teach:data_over_space_and_time to_teach:undergrad-ADA causal_inference</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:56271b63f2a4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218176/not-getting-paid-do-what-you-love">
    <title>(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-30T23:52:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218176/not-getting-paid-do-what-you-love</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms—from blogs to YouTube to Instagram—in hopes of channeling their talents into fulfilling careers. In this eye-opening book, Brooke Erin Duffy draws much-needed attention to the gap between the handful who find lucrative careers and the rest, whose “passion projects” amount to free work for corporate brands.
"Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, Duffy offers fascinating insights into the work and lives of fashion bloggers, beauty vloggers, and designers. She connects the activities of these women to larger shifts in unpaid and gendered labor, offering a lens through which to understand, anticipate, and critique broader transformations in the creative economy. At a moment when social media offer the rousing assurance that anyone can “make it”—and stand out among freelancers, temps, and gig workers—Duffy asks us all to consider the stakes of not getting paid to do what you love."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ethnography networked_life class_struggles_in_america economics social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:674313f7e25d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.211">
    <title>The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-26T01:59:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.211</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this essay, we explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw upon in-depth, life history interviews conducted in four metropolitan areas with racially and ethnically diverse groups of working-class men with a high school diploma but no four-year college degree. Between 2000 and 2013, we deployed heterogeneous sampling techniques in the black and white working-class neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; and the Philadelphia/Camden area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We screened to ensure that each respondent had at least one minor child, making sure to include a subset potentially subject to a child support order (because they were not married to, or living with, their child's mother). We interviewed roughly even numbers of black and white men in each site for a total of 107 respondents. Our approach allows us to explore complex questions in a rich and granular way that allows unanticipated results to emerge. These working-class men showed both a detachment from institutions and an engagement with more autonomous forms of work, childrearing, and spirituality, often with an emphasis on generativity, by which we mean a desire to guide and nurture the next generation. We also discuss the extent to which this autonomous and generative self is also a haphazard self, which may be aligned with counterproductive behaviors. And we look at racial and ethnic difference in perceptions of social standing."

--- How on earth did this get in to an AEA journal, even JEP?  (Not that it's bad that they managed it...)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB labor ethnography class_struggles_in_america sociology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:21366a2003af/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/real-college-admissions-scandal-isnt-bribes-cheating-its-how-wealth-tilts-playing-field/">
    <title>The real college admissions scandal isn’t bribes and cheating. It’s how wealth tilts the playing field. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T13:54:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/real-college-admissions-scandal-isnt-bribes-cheating-its-how-wealth-tilts-playing-field/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>education academia class_struggles_in_america inequality page.scott kith_and_kin transmission_of_inequality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5120b05936e8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://economics.mit.edu/files/16724">
    <title>Work of the Past, Work of the Future</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-25T19:29:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://economics.mit.edu/files/16724</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Urban U.S. labor markets today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than
they were five decades ago. Yet, urban non-college workers currently perform substantially less skilled work than in prior decades. This deskilling reflects the joint effects
of automation and international trade, which have eliminated the bulk of non-college
production, administrative support, and clerical jobs, yielding a disproportionate polarization of urban labor markets. The unwinding of the urban non-college occupational
skill gradient has, I argue, abetted a secular fall in real non-college wages by: (1)
shunting non-college workers out of specialized middle-skill occupations into low-wage
occupations that require only generic skills; (2) diminishing the set of non-college workers that hold middle-skill jobs in high-wage cities; and (3) attenuating, to a startling
degree, the steep urban wage premium for non-college workers that prevailed in earlier
decades. Changes in the nature of work—many of which are technological in origin—
have been more disruptive and less beneficial for non-college than college workers."

--- Autor's previous papers have a bad habit of defining "skill level of a job" as "type wage level of that job in 1979", making it hard to grasp what he's actually measuring.  I will be interested to see if he does any better here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics inequality class_struggles_in_america re:urban_scaling_what_urban_scaling</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:99071a14c705/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/09/what-dollar-stores-tell-us-about-electoral-politics/">
    <title>Washington Monthly | What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T04:36:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/09/what-dollar-stores-tell-us-about-electoral-politics/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics inequality class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america putnam.lara</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e4038ab2ea79/</dc:identifier>
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