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Conference Session
Great Powers and One Planet: Faultline, Key Issues, and Common Challenges
Oct 12, 2021 | 09:00—10:00
From climate change to global public health, from inclusive development and sustainable growth, areas for cooperation abound between the US and China in a world hungry for directions and leadership. If, as Martin Luther King says, we may arrive in different ships, but we are in same boat”, how might the US and China work together on these issues?
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Working Paper
Working PaperNever Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Jul 2020
Over and over again, US government policies designed to transfer and create wealth and economic opportunity were restricted to whites by design.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesEconomic Growth and Carbon Emissions: The Road to ‘Hothouse Earth’ is Paved with Good Intentions
Dec 2018
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
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Article
The Real Story of Detroit's Collapse
Jul 23, 2013
“How could Michigan officials possibly talk about cutting the average $19,000-a-year pension benefit for municipal workers while reaffirming their pledge of$283 million in taxpayer money to a professional hockey stadium?
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Article
Unstable Capital Flows Threaten Emerging Economies
Aug 24, 2018
It’s not just Turkey—from India to Indonesia, external financial liabilities are a looming threat
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Article
Did Capitalism Fail? The Financial Crisis Five Years On
Jul 24, 2013
Did the global economic collapse in 2008 stem from structural failures in the capitalist system?
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Article
The use of economists' biography, IV.
Sep 23, 2012
Excerpts from a draft introduction of Till Düppe’s and Roy Weintraub’s new book, under revision for Princeton University Press, presently carrying the working title “Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Transformation of Economic Theory
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Article
Nobody understands money
Jan 4, 2012
A correspondent sends us to a column of Paul Krugman’s that asserts that “nobody understands debt”. Fair enough.
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Article
What's in a name?
Nov 2, 2011
In the case of utility, it’s all in the name.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesHow Money Drives US Congressional Elections
Aug 2016
Social scientists have stubbornly held that money and election outcomes are at most weakly linked. New research provides clear evidence to the contrary.
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Video
China's Regulation Problem
Jan 4, 2015
Repression in China today is at its most severe point since the aftermath of 1989. David Wu discusses the tensions inherent in a one-party state which is struggling to aspire toward a more predictable rule of law.
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Article
Paul Krugman on the MIT History
Mar 2, 2015
My friend and “grown-up kid” Yann Giraud just called my attention to Paul Krugman’s recent column, “Empire of the Institute”, on Roy Weintraub’s recently edited HOPE volume “MIT and the Transformation of American Economics” (to which three Playground kids contributed: Yann, Beatrice Cherrier and myself).
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Article
A Response to John Kay's essay on the State of Economics
Oct 4, 2011
The future of macro, he says, may well make “the formation and revision of expectations an object of analysis in its own right.”
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Article
How to Stop Bank Runs and Get Taxpayers Off the Hook
Mar 27, 2023
A federal government guarantee or 100% reserve banking? Which is better?
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Video
The Next Economic Frontier and the Wild World of Non-Rational Expectations
Jan 14, 2013
One of the fundamental ideas of modern economics — that people have rational expectations, an unbiased, statistically correct view of the future — is, in reality, a simple hypothesis.