293 Results for “COVID 19”
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Podcast
Andrew Sheng
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Article
The Eurozone in Crisis
May 4, 2020
A Report From the Front Line
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Webinars and Events
COVID-19 and the Developing World
Webinarwith Dr. Jayati Ghosh | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
May 8, 2020
Developing countries, many of which appear not to have felt the health effects of COVID to the same extent as Europe and the US, are nonetheless facing severe economic effects as the pandemic pushes the global economy into a recession.
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Podcast
Danny Quah
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Article
Payroll Share, Real Wage and Labor Productivity Across US States
Apr 30, 2020
States can be sorted into two groups with statistically significantly different productivity regimes. In this sense, the US economy shows signs of dualism—which is the idea that the economy consists of heterogeneous units that exhibit different behaviors and levels of performance.
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Webinars and Events
Extreme Climate Change in a Post-COVID 19 World
Webinarwith Geoff Mann | 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Apr 29, 2020
Please join us for a discussion with Geoff Mann, INET Senior Fellow and author of Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future, on how the coronavirus pandemic might (or might not) teach us to prepare for a life on an increasingly hot planet.
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Podcast
john powell
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Podcast
Jeremy Lent
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Article
The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal
Apr 28, 2020
A Template to Prevent a Global Debt Crisis?
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Podcasts
Adair Turner
Apr 27, 2020
Rob talks to Adair Turner—member of the House of Lords, former Chairman of the British Financial Services Authority, and member of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation—about how the COVID-19 economic crash compares to the post-2008 recession: namely, how to deal with a crisis of supply in addition to aggregate demand.
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Article
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Apr 24, 2020
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year.
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Podcasts
Michael Spence
Apr 22, 2020
Andrew Michael Spence—Nobel laureate, Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business, and Co-Chair of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation—talks to Rob about how the U.S. government typically errs on the side of doing too little, too late, in response to major crises like the coronavirus pandemic. Spence and Rob compare and contrast how governments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia have responded to COVID-19.
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Podcasts
Jayati Ghosh
Apr 22, 2020
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and member of INET’s Global Commission on Economic Transformation, talks to Rob about the unique way the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting developing countries. They also discuss the developing global economic crisis, and the way young people in particular are responding.
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Podcasts
John Ralston Saul
Apr 22, 2020
John Ralston Saul, writer and political philosopher, talks to Rob about citizenry and society in light of COVID-19. They discuss models for civic engagement that could better tackle the pandemic, as well as other social problems, such as poverty and inequality.
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Podcast
John Ralston Saul