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Michael Piore

Michael J. Piore

Michael J. Piore is David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy at MIT and the author of Beyond Individualism.

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Trading Up

Are Latin American populists creating something new that might temper or replace market mechanisms?

Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank

Forum Responses

Response: Michael J. Piore responds to Dean Baker

For liberals and progressives, the real shocker in the November election is less Trump’s victory than the support he received from the working class in the industrial Midwest, once the heart and...
Michael J. Piore

Response: Do We Need Full Employment?

This is a particularly bleak moment for those who share a progressive vision of American society. A just economic and social order seems increasingly remote. Citizens are less and less able to...
Michael J. Piore

Response: Diversity and Capitalism

I find this essay troublesome. I have almost no difficulty with the argument when taken one line at a time. But its basic thrust seems misguided. Sturm and Guinier lay out a...
Michael J. Piore

Response: Solving the New Inequality — Forum Response

I share Richard Freeman’s concern about increasing income inequality in the United States and declining welfare for people at the lower end of the distribution. I also share his frustration at the indifference...
Michael J. Piore

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