Lane Kenworthy

 

Professor of Sociology and Political Science

University of Arizona

 

lane.kenworthy@arizona.edu

 

 

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"Why oppose an increase in redistribution?" 

Cato Online, 2009.10.30

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"Real and perceived inequality" 

Cato Online, 2009.10.29

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"How much should we redistribute? And how?" 

Cato Online, 2009.10.23

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"Is redistribution the wrong cure?" 

Cato Online, 2009.10.21

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"Is consumption the grail for inequality skeptics?" 

Cato Online, 2009.10.14

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"Tax myths"

Contexts, Summer 2009

Article  (html version)

Podcast

 

"How does the U.S. labor market compare now?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.05.26

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"Do schools make inequality worse?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.05.21

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"How to pay for inequality reduction: follow-up" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.04.20

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"Reducing inequality: how to pay for it" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.18

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"Reducing inequality: what to do about the top 1%" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.17

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"Reducing inequality: expand and improve public services" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.17

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"Reducing inequality: boosting incomes in the bottom half" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.16

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"Reducing inequality: put the brakes on globalization?" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.15

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"Reducing inequality: education to the rescue?" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.14

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"Reducing inequality: are unions the answer?" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.14

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"Reducing inequality: what's the problem?" 

Crooked Timber, 2009.04.13

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"Are interest groups the source of our economic woes?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.02.02

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"Why the conversion to Keynes?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.01.18

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"A Keynesian free lunch?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.01.14

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"How progresive are our taxes? Follow-up" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.01.08

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"How progressive are our taxes?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2009.01.05

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"Luck vs. effort?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.12.21

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"Presidents and income inequality" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.12.09

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"A new era of Democratic dominance?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.11.16

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"More on elections and fundamentals" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.11.11

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"Elections, campaigns, and fundamentals" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.11.03

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"Get elected. Do something good. Repeat." 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.10.22

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"Obama's antipoverty agenda" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.09.24

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"Vote Republican if you want equal pay?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.09.13

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"Slow income growth for middle America" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.09.03

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"Rising inequality hinders upward mobility" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.07.27

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"Is the U.S. a high-inequality country if mobility is taken into account?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.07.20

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"Rising inequality has not been offset by mobility" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.07.13

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"Can mobility offset a rise in inequality?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.07.06

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"Types of mobility" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.07.04

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"Making ends meet on $300,000 a year" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.06.24

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"Sweden: image and reality" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.05.26

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"Inequality and prices" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.05.20

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"Has Ireland's rising tide benefited its poor?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.05.18

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"Top incomes in the U.S. and abroad" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.05.11

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"The cost of rising inequality" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.04.27

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"Tax progressivity and the rise in inequality" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.04.28

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"Do people care about inequality?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.04.13

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"Why embrace economic change?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.04.06

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"Stigma's declining half-life?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.03.30

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"Bar tabs and tax cuts" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.03.23

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"The best inequality graph" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.03.09

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"Embrace economic change" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.03.02

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"Promoting mobility" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.24

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"Absolute poverty" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.20

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"Is poverty highest in the U.S.?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.19

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"The left, the right, and income growth" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.17

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"Income inequality, spending inequality, wealth inequality" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.11

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"Taxes and inequality: lessons from abroad" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.10

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"Bread, peace, and the 2008 election" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.02.03

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"The new Laffer curve logic" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.01.27

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"Size of the pie, distribution of the pie" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.01.22

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"Taxes at the top" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.01.14

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"The shrinking gender pay gap" 

Consider the Evidence, 2008.01.02

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"How the Democrats lost their class" 

Consider the Evidence, 2007.12.17

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"Households running out of wiggle room" 

Consider the Evidence, 2007.12.07

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"Does more equality mean less economic growth?" 

Consider the Evidence, 2007.12.03

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"Is equality feasible?" 

Contexts, Summer 2007

Article

 

"Rising inequality not a surge at the top"

Challenge, September-October 2004

Article

 

"Cooperation and economic performance"

Policy Options, October 1997

Article

 

"Balancing competition and cooperation"

Challenge, July-August 1996

Article

 

"What do we do now?"

Peace Review, Spring 1992

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