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Democratic Reform at a Time of Dire Troubles
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Giulia Zacchia focuses on the dynamics of power and gender in the labor market, revealing how sexual harassment not only impacts individual women but also perpetuates broader societal inequalities.
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Is self-interest the best way to organize society? If monetarism has taught us anything, the models aren’t at fault, it’s our application of them that’s flawed. Perhaps we just need to do a better job of letting markets guide us? Homo Economicus explains why greed is good.
Article | Finance, Technology & Innovation
What Does Mustard Gas Have in Common with Crypto and Blockchain?
In his new book, Let Them Eat Crypto, Peter Howson cautions that the technologies are not just fraudulent but causing indefensible harm to both humanity and the planet.
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Article | Finance, Technology & Innovation
Jim Chanos: “The Crypto Ecosystem Is Well-Suited for the Dark Side of Finance.”
The famed short-seller talks Sam Bankman-Fried, why Wall Street is still so keen on crypto, and how technology is making us dumber.
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
The Art of Paradigm Maintenance: How the ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ tries to deal with the inflation of 2021-2023
The re-emergence of inflation threw the ‘science of monetary policy’ off the rails. Do the new tweaks to the theory work?
Working Paper | Finance
Precedents, Instruments and Targets that the Fed Has Used to Create and Support a Postcrisis Global Safety Net
Creating the post-2008 global safety net for mega-banks
By permitting business definitions of “efficiency” to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice
By Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, Pavitra Govindan, and Darren Bush
Working Paper | Finance, Macroeconomics
Why The Monetary Policy Framework in Advanced Countries Needs Fundamental Reform
Monetary policy should be guided much more by financial sector developments and much less by near-term targets for inflation.
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Is “Inflation First” Really “Rentiers First”? The Taylor Rule and Rentier Income in Industrialized Countries
Central banks strongly favored rentier incomes in their reaction functions
Working Paper | Energy, Macroeconomics
Betting on Black Gold: Oil Speculation and U.S. Inflation (2020-2022)
Were the sharp increases in prices during 2020-2022 due to fundamental shifts in supply and demand or are they attributable to excessive market speculation?
By Carlotta Breman and Servaas Storm
Oct 13, 2023
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