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How the Tax Dilemma Abroad Is Tied to Regressive Policies at Home
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
I’m pleased to be able to kick off Roosevelt’s blog symposium on international tax rules, joined by Rasmus Corlin Christensen of Copenhagen Business School, Valpy Fitzgerald from Oxford, Jayati Ghosh from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Martin Hearson from Sussex. Additional thanks to Tommaso Faccio of ICRICT for helping coordinate. We are anchoring our blog symposium
- Published in Blog, International, Politics
AT A GLANCE: Corporate Power, Public Power, and the Future of Prescription Drug Policy in the United States
Thursday, 05 December 2019
Today’s pharmaceutical industry is failing most Americans. The structure of laws, regulations, and institutions that shape corporate decision-making drive runaway profits rather than improve patient health. Transforming this broken system requires using the tools of government in expansive ways—a “one-two punch”—by reining in the industry’s extractive practices through stiffer market regulation and deploying the power
- Published in Publications
Addressing Climate Change Through Price and Non-Price Interventions
Tuesday, 03 December 2019
Economists have had a long predilection for price interventions to correct market failures. Recognizing the importance of the second-best nature of economies, the Stern-Stiglitz High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices report (2017) departed from the recommendation of a single carbon price for all uses at all places and all times. In a Roosevelt working paper, Roosevelt
- Published in Publications, Working Papers
Understanding Racial Inequity in a Time of Corporate Power Dominance
Monday, 02 December 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:December 2, 2019 CONTACT:Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org Understanding Racial Inequity in a Time of Corporate Power Dominance New report explores why we must curb the power of corporations with policy changes that account for the hidden rules of race New York, NY—Since its founding, the US economy has been structured on rules that privilege
- Published in Press Release
It May Be Profit Season for US Companies, but Workers Are Left in the Red
Friday, 29 November 2019
Today is Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season. Retail workers will leave their Thanksgivings early—if they enjoy one at all—to start long shifts for too little pay in order to support the consumer binging that is America’s holiday season. The deals for shoppers may be sweet, and the profits for companies will
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion
The Racial Rules of Corporate Power: How Extractive Corporate Power Harms Black and Brown Communities and How Race-Conscious Solutions Can Create an Inclusive Economy
Monday, 25 November 2019
The US economy has been structured by rules that either privilege or exploit people based on their race. Our nation’s legacy of implicit and explicit racial exclusions continue to have a deep impact on who is able to meaningfully participate and profit in the current American economy and who is left behind. The racialized policy
- Published in Brief, Publications
Why Affordable Student Health Insurance Matters: A Look Back on Care for GW
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
In the wake of President Trump’s election in 2016, my friends and I at the George Washington University (GW) were anxious about health insurance. We worried that Trump and a Republican legislature might overturn the entire Affordable Care Act. A loss of protections allowing young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until age
- Published in Blog, Education, Health Care, Roosevelt @
The Best Option: Why the Public Option Won’t Be Universal
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Health care—and the prospect of a single-payer system—has gotten a lot of attention at the national level and in presidential debates this year. And for good reason: The costs of health care are consistently rising faster than the economy overall, and households are bearing those increased costs through growing premiums and deductibles. That means many
- Published in Blog, Health Care
Transcending Neoliberalism: How the Free-Market Myth Has Prevented Climate Action
Tuesday, 05 November 2019
We’ve known about climate change for an entire generation, yet decades of research about the climate crisis and the threat it poses have largely fallen silent in Washington. Recently, this has begun to change. Led by youth activists and environmental justice groups, environmental politics are swiftly shifting. Rather than offering tweaks to the existing system,
- Published in Publications, Report
The Free Market Won’t Free Us From Our Collective Challenges, Especially Global Warming
Monday, 04 November 2019
For the first time in our history, the climate crisis and how to combat it is the issue dominating the presidential debate. Many Democratic candidates have released climate proposals that seek to reduce carbon emissions in order to align with recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Progressives should applaud the collective
- Published in Blog
