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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Description: This is episode three Cited Podcastâs new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battles behind the economic ideas that shape our world. For a full list of credits, and for the rest of the episodes, visit the series page.For much of the 20th century, few economists studied inequality. âWatching the study of inequality was like watching the grass grow,â is the way inequality scholar James K. Galbraith put it to us. Yet, the inequality studies grass is growing todayâreally, itâs something of a lush jungle. Ar...