Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Critical race theory is an ideology which maintains that the United States is a fundamentally racist country ...

A research paper, out of Tufts University and in an online publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), makes an interesting claim. Bruce Boghosian and Christoph Börgers, ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

There’s been a debate going on for a few years about whether the big rise in income inequality in the U.S. over the past three decades has been at least partly a political phenomenon or purely an ...

Thomas Piketty’s case for rising inequality took another hit this week. Mr. Piketty hypothesized that income inequality has risen because returns on capital—such as profits, interest and rent that are ...

In a variety of social contexts, measuring merit or performance is a crucial step toward enforcing meritocratic ideals. At the same time, workable measures are bound to obfuscate the fuzziness and ...

Ph.D. Economics, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2010, Conspicuous Consumption & Inequality: Theory and Evidence M.A. Economics, Western Illinois University B.B. Economics, Western Illinois University ...