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Podcasts | Government & Politics
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Lincoln Mitchell, Political Science Professor at Columbia University, discusses the increasingly powerful fascist movement in the US., outlining the elements of fascism present in the MAGA movement, including its dependence on a strongman leader, the scapegoating of minorities, threats of violence and curtailing of freedoms of speech and assembly.
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Ever since 2016, INET researchers confirmed the significance of economic issues in Trump’s ascendency.
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The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” from 1926 to 1933
Working Paper | Environment, Macroeconomics
Macroeconomic Modeling in the Anthropocene
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Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
Concentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.
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A major factor in the decline of inflation is the simple fact that America’s workers were, in general, unable to raise their nominal wages in line with the rise in the cost of living
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Working Paper | Finance, Government & Politics, Health
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Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
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Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
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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.
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