People have a tendency to disregard information that contradicts their partisan or ideological
identity. This inclination can become especially striking when citizens reject notions that …

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and
disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the …

Economics is often described as the most politically influential social science and yet
economic advice is often largely irrelevant to prominent policy debates. We draw on …

During the recent economic crisis, Keynesian ideas about fiscal stimulus briefly seemed to
form the basis of a new expert consensus about how to deal with demand shocks. However …

ABSTRACT Global Wealth Chain analysis explores the potential for wealth creation to
become wealth capture. Corporate tax avoidance is a component in many GWC. The …

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led
to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends …

In this article I do four things. First, I set out and critique mainstream economic theory of tax
evasion and its lack of a reflexive ethical-economic agent. Second, I set out more innovative …

Statistics are widely acknowledged as an essential part of journalism. Yet despite repeated
investigations showing that routine news coverage involving statistics leaves much to be …

The term 'financialization'denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies
to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry …

Congressional hearings are a venue in which social scientists present their views and
analyses before lawmakers in the United States, however quantitative data on their …