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For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave ...

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After missing his flight and his much-anticipated Cape Town lecture, Thomas Piketty, the French economist who published the ...

Beyond your household's earnings each year, are there other indicators pointing to the fact that you might be lower class?