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

Emily Badger looks at the new study on place and economic mobility and notes the important role of race. [wonkblog (opens in a new tab)]

On that same study, Mikayla Bouchard points to the role of transportation and sprawl in determining mobility. [the upshot (opens in a new tab)]

Andrew McAfee writes on Peter Thiel, Jean Tirole and monopolies. [ft (opens in a new tab)]

Lydia DePillis reports on research describing how the economic background of politicians affects their voting. [wonkblog (opens in a new tab)]

Ben Casselman busts the myth that millennials are constant job-hoppers and points out that even if they were that’d be a positive sign for wage growth. [fivethirtyeight (opens in a new tab)]

Friday figure

Figure from “The future of work in the second machine age is up to us (opens in a new tab),” by Marshall Steinbaum