The Wage Standard

Events:

Upcoming

Past

• University of Central Oklahoma (RSVP) — College of Business, UCO @ Santa Fe, Oklahoma City, OK (June 9, 2026)
• Arena Idé — book event, Stockholm, Sweden (May 27, 2026)
• Solid State Books (RSVP) — Washington, DC (May 19, 2026)
• People’s Books — Takoma Park, MD (May 18, 2026)
• Columbia Center for Political Economy — with Suresh Naidu & Alex Hertel-Fernandez (May 1, 2026)
• 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:

• CEPR Mostly Economics (with Dean Baker) — Episode 38 (Jun 11, 2026) New!
• The Journal Record (Oklahoma) — “Economist says $15 minimum wage could reduce Oklahoma worker turnover” (Jun 10, 2026) New!
• Tulsa Flyer — “Oklahomans will decide whether to raise minimum wage to $15. Tulsans have thoughts.” (Jun 8, 2026) New!
• Economics for Inclusive Prosperity — “How I learned to stop worrying and love the minimum wage” (Jun 5, 2026) New!
• Money & Macro Talks — “Why you deserve a higher wage” (Jun 4, 2026) New!
• Katalys — “How do we raise wages?” (Jun 3, 2026) New!
• Jared Bernstein — “It’s Time, People! (to raise the minimum wage)” (May 29, 2026) New!
• Paul Krugman Substack — “The Vindication of Bidenomics” (May 17, 2026) New!
• The Angry Bear Blog — “Was Biden Economics Good or Was It Bad?” (May 17, 2026) New!
• Washington Monthly — “The Affordability Crisis Is a Wage Crisis” (Apr 28, 2026)
• NPR Planet Money — “The hidden power keeping wages low” (Apr 21, 2026)
• The American Prospect — “What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?” (Apr 17, 2026)
• NPR Planet Money — “The labor economics of Alien” (teaser, Apr 14, 2026)
• Pitchfork Economics — “The Wage Standard” (video, Apr 7, 2026)
• Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (Apr 7, 2026)
• Capitalisn’t — “The Real Cause of Wage Stagnation” (video, Apr 2, 2026)
• ProMarket — “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage” (review by Matthew Lucky, Apr 2, 2026)
• Money Life with Chuck Jaffe — “U.S. wage standards fall short in creating prosperity” (Mar 31, 2026)
• Center for American Progress — “The Flip Side of Affordability: Raising Wages Across the Country” (Mar 27, 2026)
• Substack Live with Mike Konczal — “Discussing The Wage Standard”
• The New Yorker — “An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem”
• Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch) — “Most Workers Deserve a Raise”. English translation.
• Capitalisn’t (Zingales & McLean) — “The Real Cause of Wage Stagnation”
• The Bruenigs podcast
• The Majority Report — “Fixing America’s Wage Problem”
• Publishers Weekly Q&A — “We’ve Created Two Americas”

Writings & Research:

• Substack — “A Minimum Wage Natural Experiment Has Been Running for Over a Decade” (Jun 10, 2026) New!
• Substack — “The Secret Sauce of Swedish Equality” (Jun 3, 2026) New!
• The Boston Globe — “How to Save the Middle Class” New!
• The Journal Record (Oklahoma) — “Oklahoma voters consider raising minimum wage to $15” (Apr 28, 2026)
• TIME — “America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis” (Apr 10, 2026)
• Substack — “These Republican-leaning States Went Big on Minimum Wages. Here’s What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.” (Apr 8, 2026)
• Minimum wage research hub
• Published articles & book chapters
• NBER working papers
• Google Scholar