UMass Economics

@UMassEcon

Committed to advancing, teaching, and applying social science to understand and improve our economy and society.

Amherst, MA umass.edu/economics Joined January 2013

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"How to save the middle class"
Arin Dube, wrote a Boston Globe op-ed on standards for wages (beyond the minimum wage: "minimum pay requirements for jobs based on occupation and industry") and how Massachusetts is due to revisit its wage laws. archive.ph/p05s6

UMass Economics @UMassEcon Apr 27

"Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball"
Robert Pollin, pens the first of a two-part series that covers President Donald Trump’s "devastating cuts to the already dysfunctional U.S. health care system and the need for Medicare for All." dollarsandsense.org/overcoming-tru…

www.dollarsandsense.org Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball It is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system.

UMass Economics @UMassEcon Apr 27

"America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis"
In a piece for TIME, Arin Dube, writes, "The issue underpinning America’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t just rising prices. time.com/article/2026/0…

time.com America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis The true culprit behind America’s affordability issue “is that employers have had too much power and too little motivation to share gains," writes economist Arindrajit Dube.

UMass Economics @UMassEcon Apr 27

Nancy Folbre, has written a piece for The American Prospect examining a new book by Arindrajit Dube, "The Wage Standard." "Arindrajit Dube has written a lucid, empirically rigorous, and—in the current political climate—audacious book. prospect.org/2026/04/17/fai…

prospect.org What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage? - The American Prospect Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.

UMass Economics @UMassEcon Apr 27

Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk, , have written a new piece for Project Syndicate. "As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor. project-syndicate.org/commentary/oil…

www.project-syndicate.org The World Needs an Oil Buyers’ Club Isabella M. Weber & Gregor Semieniuk propose a framework to limit inflationary and recessionary pressures amid an intensifying global energy crisis.