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Marshall Steinbaum

Marshall Steinbaum is Senior Economist and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2014.

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Class & Inequality

Marx’s New Deal

On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.

Marshall Steinbaum

Education & Opportunity

A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed

When higher education is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all. The good news is we have done this once before.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Education & Opportunity

Who's Afraid of the Student Debt Crisis?

Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality, Politics

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

The Unseen Threat of Capital Mobility

Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization

Marshall Steinbaum

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