The NSER issue is an essence of NSSR political economics.

The editors gathered interviews with Anwar, Duncan, and the chair of NSSR's Economics Department
Sanjay Reddy; accounts by Rama Vasudevan, Ben Fine, Michael Roberts and Riccardo Bellofiore; and excellent articles.

It follows up on Rehm's and my work in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. We found wage increases follow turbulent equalization dynamics, like Shaikh finds for regulating profit rates.

This is because limits to wage bargaining are shaped by competition: academic.oup.com/cje/article/...

In my paper, I move further into the study of wage inequalities within the real competition/real economic analysis framework, which Anwar Shaikh pioneered.

I investigate which competitive dynamics dominate at the top and bottom of the wage distribution: www.nsereview.org/index.php/NS...