Unlearning Economics
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You Are Living Under Mr Burns
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References (in rough order of appearance)
The World's Billionaires, Forbes
Consumer Price Index, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Distributional Financial Accounts, Federal Reserve
Share of Net Worth Held by the Top 1%, FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
A blueprint for a coordinated minimum effective taxation standard for ultrahighnetworth individuals, Zucman
Takers Not Makers, Oxfam
The Antitrust Paradox, Bork
Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, Khan, Yale Law Journal Vol. 126
The Everything Store, Stone
DOGE, USAID cuts and excess deaths, YouTube
The Wage Standard, Dube
Monopsony in Movers: The Elasticity of Labor Supply to Firm Wage Policies, Bassier, Dube & Naidu, Journal of Human Resources (2022)
State of Working America Data Library, Economic Policy Institute
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs, Cengiz, Dube, Lindner & Zipperer, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2019)
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power, Galbraith
Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data, Farber, Herbst, Kuziemko & Naidu, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)
Trade union density, OECD/AIAS ICTWSS database
Julia Pyke interview, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4 (2025)
Simpsons will cool it with Nplant jokes, Associated Press / Deseret News (1990)
Simpsons Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry, Harvard Crimson (1990)
What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?, Ritchie, Our World in Data
Electricity generation and health, Markandya & Wilkinson, The Lancet (2007)
Balancing safety with sustainability: assessing the risk of accidents for modern low-carbon energy systems, Sovacool et al., Journal of Cleaner Production (2016)
Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group III, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014)
Levelized Cost of Energy+, Lazard
Hinkley Point C, National Audit Office
Flamanville 3 cost review, Cour des comptes
The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: a case of negative learning by doing, Grubler, Energy Policy (2010)
Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors, Lovering, Yip & Nordhaus, Energy Policy (2016)
World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Schneider et al.
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