The Wage Standard

Events:

Upcoming

• Solid State Books (RSVP) — Washington, DC (May 19, 2026)
• People’s Books — Takoma Park, MD (May 18, 2026)

Past

• 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:

• 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)
• Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch) — “Most Workers Deserve a Raise”. English translation.
• 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”
• Paul Krugman Substack (April 21, 2026)
• The Angry Bear Blog (May 17, 2026)
• Publishers Weekly Q&A — “We’ve Created Two Americas”

Writings & Research:

• The Boston Globe — “How to Save the Middle Class”
• 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)
• 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