Tom Edsall on politics inside and outside of Washington. Tags: Burkhauser, Richard V, Economic Conditions and Trends, Income, Income Inequality, Income Tax Richard V. Burkhauser, a professor of public policy at Cornell and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is fast becoming a champion of the right, challenging the conventional wisdom about income inequality. The last time Burkhauser appeared in this column, he had provided ammunition for conservatives to dispute liberal orthodoxy on the issue of growing inequality (along co-authors Jeff Larrimore and Kosali Simon). That ammunition was contained in a 2011 paper, “A ‘Second Opinion’ on the Economic Health of the American...
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