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The Power of Free Public Transit
Eliminating transit fares can transform lives, connect people to jobs, healthcare, and essential services in more equitable ways.
Featuring David Phillips
From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.
Video
The Power of Free Public Transit
Eliminating transit fares can transform lives, connect people to jobs, healthcare, and essential services in more equitable ways.
Featuring David Phillips
Article | Business & Industry, Health, Technology & Innovation
Forget the Posturing – The Inflation Reduction Act May Work Better Than Many Expected
The IRA has the potential to rectify the imbalance between public benefit and private incentives
Article | History
Alexander Hamilton’s Assault on Working People, Enslaved and Free
A new book, The Hamilton Scheme, explores a very different founder than the one we’ve come to think we know.
Video
It’s time to rethink the narrative and recognize the real legacy of forced labor.
Featuring Trevon Logan
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
Tesla as a Global Competitor: Strategic Control in the EV Transition
By Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick
Article | Business & Industry, History
By Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
Article | Business & Industry, Health, Technology & Innovation
The IRA has the potential to rectify the imbalance between public benefit and private incentives
Article | Business & Industry, History
By Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
Video
If we are to work toward a better future, we must look beyond the surface, and understand the multifaceted reality of China’s ascent in the global arena.
Featuring Yuen Yuen Ang
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
As the “Technoking” of Tesla strategizes to maintain his control over the company’s decision-making, anyone concerned with the role that Tesla will play in the evolving EV transition should be asking how CEO Musk might use, or abuse, his powerful position.
By Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick
Working Paper | Business & Industry, History
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country, and possibly more than all other countries put together, securing its role as the world’s first “corporation nation.”
By Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
Working Paper | Health, Technology & Innovation
Sensitivity of investment and valuation to drug price indices and market conditions
By Cody Hyman, Henry Dao, Gregory Vaughan, and Fred Ledley
Working Paper | Development, Technology & Innovation
The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.
By Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun
Working Paper | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple reliance on interest rates to control inflation.
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
How convincing is the model analysis by Bernanke and Blanchard? How empirically relevant are their mechanisms causing inflation – and how robust and plausible are their econometric findings?
Mar 06, 2025
Webinars and Events
The conference aims to examine the complex interplay of housing, law, economics, and spatial justice in an unequal world, and we welcome scholars and practitioners to participate.
Feb 17, 2025
Webinars and Events
Following a successful inaugural Meeting of Young Minds in 2024, the Second annual Meeting of Young Minds on 17 – 19 February 2025 is geared to be an exciting and engaging gathering of future leaders in the field of economics.
Nov 30, 2024
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This conference aims to explore important issues of economics of AI, good governance, humanization of AI technologies, privacy, considerations of creative thinking and imagination, and take a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities of AI technologies.
Jul 08, 2024
Webinars and Events
Two weeks of dialogues on Poverty, Development, Globalisation
Jul 01, 2024
Webinars and Events
The intricacies of the political economy that play out across countries in the Global South have profound significance for understanding the nature of ecological change and economic security that confront our world today.
Aug 22, 2024
Jun 04, 2024
YSI projects are collaboratively organized by members of the community to explore topics in new economic thinking. Projects may be held virtually (discussions, webinars, reading groups) or in person (workshops, pre-conferences). Learn more about YSI here