Adam Posen Knihy

From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen comes a revealing examination of the Supreme Court's conservative shift over the past fifty years, beginning with the Nixon administration. In the early 1960s, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court expanded civil rights and promoted equality through landmark rulings like Brown v. Board of Education and the establishment of the 'Miranda warning.' However, following Warren's retirement in 1968, President Nixon, intent on halting what he viewed as the Court's liberal agenda, launched an assault on its progressive achievements. During his presidency, he appointed four justices, steering the Court's direction for decades. Cohen surveys significant rulings since Nixon, highlighting the Court's consistent alignment with a pro-corporate agenda. Contrary to popular belief, the Court has not equally protected the rights of the poor and disadvantaged for years. Many achievements of the Warren Court, including school desegregation, labor rights, and voting protections, have been sidelined in favor of decisions that favor the privileged—primarily white and wealthy Americans. As the nation confronts the implications of two new Trump-appointed justices, Cohen illustrates how past decisions have exacerbated inequality. This work serves as a critical account of the Supreme Court's role in American history and challenges any optimistic faith in its ability to provide necessary checks and

“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years. In Supreme Inequality, bestselling author Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and exposes how, contrary to what Americans like to believe, the Supreme Court does little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged; in fact, it has not been on their side for fifty years. Cohen proves beyond doubt that the modern Court has been one of the leading forces behind the nation’s soaring level of economic inequality, and that an institution revered as a source of fairness has been systematically making America less fair. A triumph of American legal, political, and social history, Supreme Inequality holds to account the highest court in the land and shows how much damage it has done to America’s ideals of equality, democracy, and justice for all.

Addressing climate change will entail major challenges for economic growth, employment, inflation, and public finances. But much uncertainty surrounds the channels through which mitigation and adjustment efforts yield benefits or impose costs on the global economy, from nations to workers, households, and companies. The Green Assessing the Economic Implications of Climate Action offers research originally presented at a major conference at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in June 2023 in Washington, DC, organized to shed light on this new field of study and recommend policies for the future.

This volume analyze the impact of sustained lower productivity growth on public finances, social protection, trade, capital flows, wages, and inequality. It concludes that slow productivity growth could aggravate inequality and increase concentration of market power and also proposes ways that countries can cope with these consequences.