Marshall Steinbaum
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Marshall Steinbaum
@econmarshall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible.
Yes, I’m pulling the strings of the Mamdani administration.
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ha
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We Are All Chicago. We Are All Salt Lake City.
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Of course.
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thanks!
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
In it I lay out a radical and moderate case for anti-monopolism. There’s a constituency for anti-capitalism here, or rather diverse constituencies of aggrieved consumers and producers that can be united by contesting capitalistic control & gatekeeping power.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Oh and “Both” is referring to (2) not (1).
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I believe you were in fact in the room when I asked this exact question at an ASSA session last year because you presented in that same session.
October 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I don’t think changes in tax filing behavior are spurious statistical artifacts when the effective tax rate on (what the tax code considers to be) capital income has been on a steady 50 year decline!
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Or both!
October 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
1. What are the “faults” with these?

2. I had associated him with the “paradox” that innovation in the production process was low in the Roman Empire but economic growth was high, while the opposite was the case in the Middle Ages. Did I make that up? And how does he explain the paradox, if he has?
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What else has he done? (Genuinely asking.)
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Now you can be a victim of other people getting their student loans canceled.
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
That’s the whole point of posting something fake.
October 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM