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Should governments enable price discrimination by income? Firms and lower-income consumers would likely benefit.

This article was written jointly with Owen Southam, with contributions from Rasif Alakbarov and Harry Masters.

After some back-and-forth with the editors I think we converged on a piece that is readable to the layperson, without mis-stating the economics.

Update, 2026: The papers, posts and later discussion of the OpportunityCard idea are collected on the OpportunityCard project page.

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