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Mostly Economics Podcast #24: Rethinking Worker Power with Suresh Naidu

Mostly Economics Podcast #24: Rethinking Worker Power with Suresh Naidu

Update: 2025-10-09
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Dean Baker speaks with Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, about unions' role in reducing inequality, how employer wage-setting power shapes labor markets, sectoral bargaining experiments in California and Minnesota, the problems with H-1B visa programs, and why Democrats shifted away from labor policy toward tax-and-transfer approaches in recent decades.

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Mostly Economics Podcast #24: Rethinking Worker Power with Suresh Naidu

Mostly Economics Podcast #24: Rethinking Worker Power with Suresh Naidu