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Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
Jul 13, 2023
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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The Origins of the Investment Theory of Party Competition
Jul 13, 2023
Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule
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Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship
Jul 6, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind reveal how centuries of belief in infinite growth on a finite planet have put us all in danger
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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Oil Prices, Oil Profits, Speculation, and Inflation
Jun 26, 2023
The role of speculation in the crude oil market in the increase in the WTI crude oil price.
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ER Doctor: "Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients"
Jun 22, 2023
Dr. Ming Lin, and healthcare providers like him, are fighting to take back control of medicine from private equity firms that are gobbling up practices and facilities. Should Wall Street make life-and-death decisions based on the bottom line?
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Profit Inflation and Markups Once Again
Jun 15, 2023
Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion, responding to Servaas Storm
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Profit Inflation Is Real
Jun 15, 2023
Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion
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How This Regional Bank Mortgage Lender Crisis is Different
Jun 12, 2023
Every banking crisis has its own overarching narratives and coincidental streams of various sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.
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We Owe an Apology to Adam Smith
Jun 7, 2023
Smith did not advocate a single-minded pursuit of profit
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Profit-Led Inflation Redefined: Response to Nikiforos and Grothe
Jun 6, 2023
Besides changes in institutions and social norms, other phenomena could explain a rise in the profit share.
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Markups, Profit Shares, and Cost-Push-Profit-Led Inflation
Jun 6, 2023
To what extent is profit-led inflation compatible with what we know about the price-setting behavior of firms and income distribution?
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Sexual Harassment and Wages: The Paradox of Power
Jun 2, 2023
The wage effect of hostile working conditions, mainly in terms of sexual harassment risk in the workplace, should be considered and monitored as a first critical step in making women less vulnerable at work and increasing their bargaining power.
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Feminist Economist Challenges Field to Deal with Women’s Bodies
Jun 1, 2023
In her new book “Naked Feminism,” Victoria Bateman explains how economic conditions drive restrictions on women’s bodily freedom and why that freedom is critical to economic prosperity.
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No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
May 30, 2023
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?