Weekend reading

This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles we think anyone interested in equitable growth should be reading. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope by taking a look back at the whole week we can put them in context.

Links

Noah Smith argues that globalization is primarily responsible for the stagnation in middle-income wages. [bloomberg view (opens in a new tab)]

Lydia DePillis has the “definitive guide to whether or not a robot will take your job.” [wa post (opens in a new tab)]

Dan Davies explains the concept of secular stagnation using the Smurf village. [the long + short (opens in a new tab)]

47 percent of families in the United States didn’t save anything out of their income, Shane Ferro reports. [business insider (opens in a new tab)]

Charles Read writes about Matt Rognlie writing about Thomas Piketty. [free exchange (opens in a new tab)]

Friday figure

Figure from “What Do Americans Think Should Be Done About Inequality? (opens in a new tab),” by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva.