What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It — my new book on why wages stalled for most workers, why that wasn’t inevitable, and what we can do about it. Publisher page · Bookshop · Amazon · Barnes & Noble
Events
Upcoming
- Columbia Center for Political Economy — with Suresh Naidu & Alex Hertel-Fernandez (May 1, 2026)
Past
- Harvard Book Store — in conversation with David Autor (Apr 10, 2026)
- Center for American Progress keynote — “The Flip Side of Affordability” (Mar 26, 2026)
- Amherst Books — book event
- Brown University — book talk
- UMass Amherst — book talk announcement
Press & Podcasts
- The New Yorker — “An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem”
- NPR Planet Money — “The hidden power keeping wages low” (Apr 21, 2026)
- NPR Planet Money — “The labor economics of Alien” (teaser, Apr 14, 2026)
- ProMarket — “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage” (review by Matthew Lucky, Apr 2, 2026)
- The American Prospect — “What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?” (Apr 17, 2026)
- Washington Monthly — “The Affordability Crisis Is a Wage Crisis” (Apr 28, 2026)
- Capitalisn’t (Zingales & McLean) — “The Real Cause of Wage Stagnation”
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (Apr 7, 2026)
- The Bruenigs podcast
- The Majority Report — “Fixing America’s Wage Problem”
- Publishers Weekly Q&A — “We’ve Created Two Americas”
Writings & Research
- TIME — “America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis” (Apr 10, 2026)
- The Journal Record (Oklahoma) — “Oklahoma voters consider raising minimum wage to $15” (Apr 28, 2026)
- Minimum wage research hub
- Published articles & book chapters
- NBER working papers
- Google Scholar
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