5660 Results for “Low-cost prescriptions https://simplemedrx.top">”

What happens when there’s no leader in the global economy?

Some nations have embraced new technologies, while others seem ill-prepared. What accounts for this difference?

Last Spring Larry Summers wounded Thomas Piketty in a friendly embrace.

Eight years after the crisis erupted, what the global economy is experiencing is starting to look less like a slow recovery than like a new low-growth equilibrium. With monetary policy unable to stimulate demand, or even inflation, it’s time for fiscal authorities to relieve the burden on central banks.

The decline in productivity growth has a longer history

Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, shares a vision of how to bring economic opportunity to women of color

Viewed in historical context, the weak recovery from the 2008 crisis has been slow and painful, but a sub-5% unemployment rate and healthy job and wage growth will be among the most important legacies Obama leaves to the next president

When politics is defined in terms of “populism” vs. “the mainstream,” the possibility for real economic reform is diminished.

Darrick Hamilton calls for spreading the benefits of asset-ownership to all Americans.

“Actual experience, as opposed to cost-benefit analyses of theoretical alternatives, further strengthens the case for suppressing the disease fully, where feasible. A recent paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, To Save the Economy, Save the People First, suggests why. A chart (reproduced here) shows that countries have followed two strategies: suppression, or trading off deaths against the economy. By and large, the former group has done better in both respects. Meanwhile, countries that have sacrificed lives have tended to end up with high mortality and economic costs.” — Martin Wolf, The Financial Times

Research by INET grantees Atkinson, Casarico and Voitchovsky shows that women are starkly underrepresented in top earning brackets across a range of different countries

Are Falling Interest Rates and Slower Growth the “New Normal”?

Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected

Economics Nobel laureate Michael Spence discusses the many changes that await us in the wake of digital technology developments and the pandemic, which are combining in unexpected ways

A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers