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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, October 24th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

A younger generation of economists has embarked on what some of them describe as a revolution

in the discipline.

Their ideas which are influencing the current political debate include new data on extreme income inequality,

climate change, and continuing impediments to Hispanics, African Americans, and women in the workplace.

They include this year's three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Esther Duflo, Abbechit Banerjee, and Michael Kramer,

who work on development economics, and Emmanuel Syez and Gabriel Zuckman, who are best known

as the architects of Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, her signature policy proposal.

In May, Warren described the plan on PBS's News Hour.

This proposal says, look, it's not punitive. It says if you built one of the great fortunes in America,

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