Lane Kenworthy is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought at the University of California-San Diego. He studies the causes and consequences of living standards, capabilities, poverty, inequality, mobility, employment, economic growth, social policy, taxes, public opinion, politics, and more in the United States and other rich longstanding-democratic countries. He is also the author of The Good Society, Would Democratic Socialism Be Better? (Oxford, 2022), Social Democratic Capitalism (Oxford, 2020), How Big Should Our Government Be? (2016), Social Democratic America (Oxford, 2014), Progress for the Poor (Oxford, 2011), Jobs with Equality (Oxford, 2008), Egalitarian Capitalism (2004), and In Search of National Economic Success (1995). His essays and shorter pieces have appeared at Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Boston Review, Consider the Evidence (his blog), and elsewhere.
