# Steve Roth — Wealth Economics

Economics as if wealth mattered

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## [Where Assets (and “Money”) Come From](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/where-assets-and-money-come-from)

_2026-06-10 · Steve Roth_

Zooming all the way out, what are the mechanisms that create new assets in the world?

## [The Magnum Opus is Out](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/the-magnum-opus-is-out)

_2026-05-26 · Steve Roth_

With much appreciation to my co-author, the redoubtable Dirk Bezemer

## [Mortgage Payments and the Vibecession: Homeowners’ “Cost of Living”](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/mortgage-payments-and-the-vibecession)

_2026-04-19 · Steve Roth_

Mortgage payments are most homeowners’ biggest monthly cash outlay. And they're way up.

## [Is a More Broadly Prosperous Country a Richer Country?](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/is-a-more-broadly-prosperous-country)

_2026-04-14_

If you think human well-being matters, yeah.

## [Does Government Military Spending “Fund” Shareholder Dividends, Buybacks, and Concentrated Wealth?](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/does-government-military-spending)

_2025-11-20 · Steve Roth_

Short answer: yeah. The long answer is…longer.

## [Inequality Researcher David Splinter Really Doesn’t Like (or Understand) Haig-Simons Income](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/inequality-researcher-david-splinter)

_2025-11-06 · Steve Roth_

And economists have widely ignored it, even while dubbing it the “preferred” measure of income.

## [“We Should Really Reduce National Productivity!“ (?%#&@#??)](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/we-should-really-reduce-national)

_2025-09-06 · Steve Roth_

Are these people crazy?

## [“We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/we-can-have-a-democratic-society)

_2025-07-20 · Steve Roth_

Louis Brandeis says it all. Or did he?

## [Which of Piketty’s “Rich Get Richer” Theories Matters More?](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/which-of-pikettys-rich-get-richer)

_2025-05-14 · Steve Roth_

Two explanations for The Matthew Effect

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_2025-05-14 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Trade Balances: It’s the Spending, Stupid](https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/trade-balances-its-the-spending-stupid)

_2025-05-03 · Steve Roth_

The obsession with measuring “production” results in strange misunderstandings.