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Miles Corak

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Professor of economics The Graduate Center, City University of New York Senior Scholar The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality #socialmobility #childrights #inequality #jobs #poverty #socialpolicy #cdnecon #EconSky https://milescorak.com/

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 3w ago

Nearly half of young children in Guatemala suffer from stunting— Chronic malnutrition in early childhood can slow development and growth, leaving children shorter than expected for their age.

Horizontal bar chart of the share of children younger than five years who are stunted across Central American and Caribbean countries, where Guatemala is highest at 46% and the other countries range from 6.7% to 22%. Source: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026). License: CC BY.
Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · last mo.

✍️ New article: “How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?” Around 30% of the world’s CO₂ emissions are covered by a carbon price, through either a tax or a trading scheme.

Area chart of carbon prices (US$ per tonne of CO2) by share of global CO2 emissions where 71% of global emissions have no carbon price and less than 10% face a price greater than $10 per tonne, with only a very small share subject to much higher prices (examples labeled: Norway $214, Uruguay $185, Sweden $150, Germany $68, China about $10 in some sectors). Data source: Dolphin and Merkle (2024) and World Bank (2025); prices are emissions-weighted averages measured in 2021 US dollars. License: CC-BY to Our World in Data.
Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · last mo.

Prime Ministers since January 1, 2016 Canada 🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau Mark Carney United Kingdom 🇬🇧 David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer Andy Burnham (probably)

Miles Corak@milescorak.com · last mo.

“The deep irony is that the chase for the majority may have been as good as it gets for Carney’s position atop Canadian politics. The parliamentary stranglehold that he built…will help the prime minister speed up his agenda. But it will also leave no one to blame for any failures of his government.”

Politico@politico.com · 2mo ago

This week's POLITICO Magazine cover story: How Mark Carney mastered the ugly art of Canadian politics. The Canadian PM's first year in office has transformed him into a ruthless — and effective — party boss. 🔗 politi.co/4uL9lNG 📷 Markian Lozowchuk/Redux Also in this issue 🧵👇

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Alan Greenspan, who in nearly two decades as chairman of the Federal Reserve nurtured a long run of prosperity, navigated crises and was a powerful force in shaping market-friendly policies, died on Monday. He was 100. Read more: nyti.ms/4fZ9n0H

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Nick Huntington-Klein@nickchk.com · 2mo ago

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

Automation and Repression

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Guido Alfani@guidoalfani.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Glad to share this open-access article, based on the Tawney Lecture that I had the honour to deliver in 2025 Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know - The Economic History Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long-term distributive dynamics. This article ...

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