Press & Policy Impact
Who Values Democracy?
Press
HBS Working Knowledge
Why Markets Panic When Democracy Spreads: Interview with Max Miller
Harvard Kennedy School — Center for International Development
How Democracy Shapes Financial Markets: CID Faculty Research Insights
Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality
Press
Marginal Revolution
Pro-Market (Stigler Center)
Inequality Has Increased Far Less Than You Think, If You Consider Social Security Benefits
Knowledge at Wharton
Why Social Security Is Essential to Measuring Wealth Inequality
Policy Impact
Congressional Budget Office
Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022
CBO adopted an expanded wealth measure that includes Social Security, finding that accrued Social Security wealth accounts for 20% of families’ total wealth and is more evenly distributed than most other asset categories.
Manhattan Institute
Cato Institute — Research Briefs in Economic Policy
Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security
Press
Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics
Press
Pro-Market (Stigler Center)
General
Harvard Business School News