Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute, and a former research economist at the Roosevelt Institute.
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Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute, and a former research economist at the Roosevelt Institute.
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The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore.
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Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.
Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization
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