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Dear reader,
Continuing our rollout of our special April print issue on economic modeling, Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer wrote for the Prospect about six ways that faulty assumptions built into models benefit the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everybody else.

Models aren’t built to encompass the complexities of real-world markets; rather, they create abstractions to help policymakers understand the impacts of different proposals. And due to the biases they rely upon, Hanauer writes, these models are deeply and consistently wrong. You can read Nick Hanauer’s piece on how economic models help further concentrate wealth and power here.


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