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Assistant Professor, @UMSociology. Research on cities and inequality. All personal problems are structural problems.
May 26, 2022 15 tweets 7 min read
It seems like everyone these days is retreating from free trade. But does protectionism mean we’re headed for isolation or international conflict? Not necessarily. @TiltingatM3 and I explore what comes after “free trade” in the @BostonReview. 🧵

bostonreview.net/articles/after… What is “post-neoliberal foreign policy”? That’s what the Biden Admin calls its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, announced Monday. But even among the policymakers trying to undo neoliberalism, there’s little sense of a coherent vision to replace it

nytimes.com/2022/05/23/bri…
Dec 9, 2019 18 tweets 26 min read
Did you know: until recently, there used to be broad consensus that inequality is harmful for economic growth? See my piece today in the @BostonReview bostonreview.net/class-inequali… @BostonReview The modern notion that there’s a tradeoff between income equality and economic growth feels so ingrained today, but it’s a relatively recent idea popularized only in the 1970s.
Oct 3, 2019 15 tweets 36 min read
In light of the @BostonFed #HouseDivided2019 conference this weekend, here are a few tweets about my paper in the ANNALS of @TheAAPSS: Antitrust Enforcement as Federal Policy to Reduce Regional Economic Disparities journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @BostonFed @TheAAPSS This is part of a special issue on policy feedbacks, aimed at designing policies to meet current challenges while being politically durable and building momentum for further reform. Also featuring @awh @SamTrachtman @jonasmeckling @povertyscholar and more journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/685/1