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Wessel’s Economic Update: Efficiency, Equality, and Art Okun

40 years after Arthur Okun’s “Tradeoff,” the classic book still has lessons for tackling inequality

David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, discusses the re-release of Arthur Okun’s classic book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff.”

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