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Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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The Advancement of Causal Identifiers in Economics

Economists have been slow to take into account these redistributive preferences, if you want to call it concerns for fairness. But there are some good work being done on that as well. Most people are willing to pay a couple of cents more, 50 cents more even to pay for better labor conditions. The CBO's reports have drawn very heavily on the outlier studies to find big negative effects.

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