The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview John Cochrane, University of Chicago economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, on the campaign to limit economic inequality. Topics covered include:

• Whether inequality undermines economic growth
• Whether middle class incomes have stagnated
• What lessons we can and can’t draw from the post-World War II era of low inequality and high growth
• Economic inequality and financial crises
• Whether inequality leads to political instability

Other Resources:

• John Cochrane on inequality

• The Debt Dialogues [Episode 23]: Scott Winship on Inequality, Mobility, and the American Dream

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