I am an economist studying the interplay of wealth, technology, and institutions in shaping inequality. My work sits at the intersection of macroeconomics, political economy, growth theory, and stratification economics. Through these lenses, I study wealth concentration in both its aggregate and racial dimensions, and to ask how technological change redistributes income, wealth, and power.

As automation and AI transform production, labor markets, and ownership structures, the central questions of classical political economy return with new force: who captures the gains from innovation, how capital accumulation interacts with growth and stagnation, and what role taxation plays in shaping who owns what. Recent projects examine wealth taxation, racial wealth gaps, secular stagnation, and technological unemployment.

I am co-author, with Duncan Foley and Thomas Michl, of Growth and Distribution, Second Edition (Harvard University Press, 2019). Alongside academic research, I try to engage in public and policy-oriented work aimed at a practical question: how economies can remain dynamic while distributing their gains more equitably.