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The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube

4/2/2026 • 47 min

Economic models have treated the labor market like a perfectly competitive system where wages naturally align with worker value. Arin Dube, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of “The Wage Standard”, challenges this long-held assumption. He argues that modern labor markets are riddled with invisible frictions that give emplo… Play episode

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The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck
Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman
How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor
Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen
Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker
How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff
How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert
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Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard T…
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan
Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi
How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis
Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis?
Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen
Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan
Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota
Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber
How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams
Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism
The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley
Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui
Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?
Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman
Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks
Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan
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America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma
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The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson
Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans
How Lobbying Led to Crony Capitalism, with Brody Mullins
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