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.
It's time to rethink the narrative and recognize the real legacy of forced labor.
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.
Article | Business & Industry, History
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country and possibly more than all other countries combined.
By Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
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 | Health, Industrial Policy, Technology & Innovation
Crying Wolf: Why Negotiating Lower Drug Prices Will Not Harm Pharmaceutical Innovation
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By Fred Ledley, Henry Dao, and Cody Hyman
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
CrowdStrike Lessons: Liability Shields Fuel Risky Practices, Expert Warns
Working Paper | Business & Industry, History
Scale and Scope in Early American Business History: The “Fortune 500” of 1812
By Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
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Article | Health, Industrial Policy, Technology & Innovation
By Fred Ledley, Henry Dao, and Cody Hyman
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, 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?
Working Paper | Health
The empirical analysis of public sector investments and the health value created by the drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations provides a cost basis for the assessment of the maximum fair price.
By Edward W. Zhou, Paula G. Chaves da Silva, Debbie Quijada, and Fred Ledley
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