The labor economics of ‘Alien’ — and its lessons for inequality on Earth

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OK, hear me out. I’m about to get into a new book with a provocative argument about why income inequality has exploded in America and how to fight it.

But at the center of this very serious economic book is a concept that has me thinking a lot about … the labor economics of the movie Alien. You know, the classic sci-fi

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