# Ilyana Kuziemko

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Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in economic policies

Anatol Lieven on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of US power • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of this paper, on class differences in economic policy preferences (predistributionist vs. redistributionist) The post Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in econom ...

Behind the News: Gaza, Ukraine, and the US w/ Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven discusses the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of United States power. Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of a recent paper on "economic policy and partisan realignment" in the US, talk about class differences in economic policy preferences ("predistributi ...

Episode 107: David Macdonald on truth-in-sentencing policies

David Macdonald talks about the effects of truth-in-sentencing policies. “Truth in Sentencing, Incentives and Recidivism” by David Macdonald. OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE: “Police, prosecutors, criminals, and determinate sentencing: The truth about truth-in-sentencing laws” by ...

Ep. 76: The political consequences of NAFTA

In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed with bipartisan support and near universal endorsement by economists. In hindsight, the economic costs and political consequences were far greater than many contemporary observers would have imagined. In a paper in the American ...

Sports, Race, and Labor, Featuring Bomani Jones, Ilyana Kuziemko, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Kenneth Shropshire

College athletics has tumbled into an unpredictable era. Money paid to players for their name, image and likeness has shaken long-held assumptions about what it means to be a college athlete. But although NIL deals have kicked off a new era in college sports, the tensions and conflicts involved ...

Lessons from the Great Compression

Economists have learned a lot studying the Great Depression and the Great Recession. But it’s the Great Compression era that some believe holds the most relevant and necessary lessons for today. Lasting roughly from the end of World War II to the early 1970s, it was a period marked by a dramatic ...

A US War Economy That Destroys Value

Shownotes The forever costs of America’s war on Iran could disfigure economic life for generations to come, around the world and in the United States. In an earlier era, war spending helped pull the United States out of the Great Depression by pulling unemployed farmers into the cities and ret ...

Why agricultural R&D is helping less where it's needed most

Today we’re talking about food, specifically agricultural R&D. The world’s population has grown from about 2 billion to 8 billion people in the last century. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. But the silver lining was that technology was advancing—particularly during the so-called “Green Revolutio ...

How I learned to stop worrying and love the minimum wage

When we talk about inclusive prosperity, what's top of mind is usually the 40-plus years of stagnation for the bottom 90% of American wage earners that began in the mid-1970s. It’s been the primary driver today’s record levels of inequality. University of Massachusetts economist Arin Dube has sp ...

Joshua Gans was bullish on the AI rollout—then Hugging Face happened

A year ago, University of Toronto economist Joshua Gans was skeptical of calls by others in his field for a slowdown in the public rollout of artificial intelligence and for confining advanced AI models to labs while its risks are studied and assessed. That put him at odds with economists like D ...