America’s Dual Economy: Why the Middle Class Is Vanishing

A collection of INET research and articles on how and why the middle class has been shrinking and how this leads to a “dual economy”

Conference Session

National Strategies, Value Creation, Income Distribution, and the Structure of Careers

Featuring William Lazonick, Mario Pianta, and Marie Carpenter

Apr 9, 2015 | 06:00—07:30

Paper

Goethe’s Faust and the socioeconomic roots of modern subjectivity

By Nicholas Boyce

Apr 2015

Grant

Will Household Wealth (Ever) Recover?

Led by Edward Wolff

Grant

Collective and Cumulative Careers: Foundations for Sustainable Prosperity

Led by William Lazonick

Article

The Wealthless Recovery

By Edward Wolff

Feb 16, 2015

Paper

The Equal Employment Opportunity Omission

By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz

Dec 2016

Paper

Linking Individual and Community Economic Mobility: The Spatial Foundations of Persistent Inequality in the United States

By Robert J. Sampson

Apr 2015

Article

"Middle Class" Once Meant Stability and Now Means Fragility

By Alissa Quart

Mar 18, 2019

Conference Session

Reversing Dual Economies?

Featuring William Lazonick, Mariana Mazzucato, Mario Seccareccia, and Servaas Storm

Oct 23, 2017 | 11:00

Paper

Inequality, Financialization, and the Growth of Household Debt in the U.S., 1989-2007

By Adam Goldstein

Nov 2013

Household indebtedness in the United States grew dramatically during the decades leading up to the financial crisis.

Article

The Panama Papers: A Tropical Tip of the Hidden Wealth Iceberg

Apr 5, 2016

When billionaires pay less, we all pay more.

Paper

Leveraging Inequality

By Romain Rancière

Apr 2012

Paper

Skill Development and Sustainable Prosperity: Cumulative and Collective Careers versus Skill-Biased Technical Change

By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, Hal Salzman, and Öner Tulum

Dec 2014

Article

Middle-Out Economics: A Truer Form of Capitalism

By Eric Beinhocker

Jun 10, 2013

Video

Wealth & Inequality: Back to the Future

Featuring Gabriel Zucman and Marshall Auerback

Jun 29, 2016