The Center for Political Economy hosted a May Day talk with Arindrajit Dube, an author and academic whose recipe for fixing the labor market is garnering much attention since his book – “The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it” – was published last month.
Dube is the Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Germany. He is also in great demand from media, having been profiled in The New Yorker (“An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem”) and Publisher’s Weekly (“We’ve Created Two Americas: PW Talks with Arindrajit Dube” ).
Dube was joined by two Columbia professors, along with a New Yrok Times reporter who covers economics, for the discussion on what this means for the future of work and American democracy.
- Alex Hertel-Fernandez, the Herbert Lehman Professor of International and Public Affairs and founder of the American Democracy Initiative at Institute of Global Politics in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
- Talmon Smith, an economics reporter for The New York Times
The panel was moderated by Suresh Naidu, professor of International and Public Affairs and the Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics.
