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Jan 2022
22m 58s

We’re Bad at Measuring Inequality—Here’s...

Harvard Business Review
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Stefanie Stantcheva, economist at Harvard University, founded the Social Economics Lab to study inequality, our feelings about it, and how policies influence it. She says when we estimate how much money our colleagues make or how much taxes impact us, we are often very far off from the truth. Her research also shows that our misconceptions are often linked t ... Show More
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