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Marshall Steinbaum

Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute, and a former research economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2014.

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Class & Inequality

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

Games Economists Play

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Forum Response

Empiricism Alone Won't Save Us

The dead weight of decades of bad economics remains.

Marshall Steinbaum

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

Class & Inequality

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

Class & Inequality

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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