Marshall Steinbaum

@Econ_Marshall

Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. All views expressed are mine alone. smart young whippersnapper -- Brad DeLong

Washington, DC
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    Essential context for rise of big philanthropy. For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions

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  2. 6 hours ago

    The Year in Education

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Deteriorating family structure causes inequality. Top 400 families are rampaging monsters for tax purposes.

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    Kocherlakota's take on academic incentives is entirely damning (and probably true).

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Excellent piece on the choose-your-own-tax-system available to the rich. Shocking decline in avg tax rate of top 400

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  6. Dec 28

    To this good piece Add this & this & this

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  7. Dec 28

    It's nice when radical misinterpretations of labor data give rise to horrible normative advice for individuals.

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    horrible advice from and total misunderstanding of how the labor market works
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  8. Dec 28

    By cutting into the tax base in a way that favors the rich, tax shelters shift tax burden ONTO the middle class.

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  9. Dec 28

    If Hilary's tax pledge rules out eliminating tax shelters (and even adds them), it is a middle class tax increase!

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    Dec 27

    You can always tell a good wine by its hashtag.

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  11. Dec 26

    ... Apprehended by an IRS tax investigator. Will spend the rest of his life pondering his defeat by The State.

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  12. Dec 26

    This article is delightful. Dread Pirate Roberts destroyed by the Libertarianism he could not hide. h/t

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  13. Dec 24

    DC is so great when none of the rest of you are here.

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  14. Dec 24

    This dissertation chapter abt how Economics missed the rise of the 1% is excellent. h/t

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  15. Dec 24

    Why is this different from pretty much all universities, which profit by laundering questionably-obtained fortunes?

    NYU has an endowed chair named for Martin Shkreli, with no plans to change that
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  16. Dec 24

    ... Where everyone has to do and say what the boss wants.

    "we need to move forward with common-sense tenure reforms that...allow our campuses to operate more like businesses"
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  17. Dec 23

    I will note that this was completely conventional wisdom within the economics profession in 1910. CW wasn't wrong.

    Point is that Left needs to get comfortable saying 'raising taxes on the rich juices incomes' & lose budget-balancing rationale
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    Dec 23

    529 accounts are godawful public policy. The backlash against Obama’s effort to kill them was insane.

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  19. Dec 22

    A Great Column: h/t

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