Important article by @rodrikdani on the need for the left to go beyond "post-market" income redistribution. He highlights the following possibilities:
https://twitter.com/went1955/status/1082655956276793345
(1) Policies to help the small business sector be more productive, which includes but are not limited to manufacturing extension. He cites my work on manufacturing intenisve communities, at research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewconten…
(2) Technology policies to encourage technologies that boost labor demand for average workers;
(3) Policies to offset market power of employers, such as unionization, min wages, and regulating gig economy;
(4) Policies that reduce role and power of financial sector, and regulate its activities more.
and @rodrikdani argues that these need to be augmented by political rearrangements that reduce the inordinate power of money in politics.
What would I add to this? I think pre-market policies need to explicitly address geographic inequalities, which are growing, as @davidautor pointed out in his Ely lecture at #ASSA2019 : aeaweb.org/webcasts/2019/…
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