Archive
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Article
Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Mar 4, 2021
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology
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Article
Missing Voters and Missing Unemployed Black Workers
Mar 3, 2021
Like Republicans with political polls, unemployed Black workers are underrepresented in federal employment data because of non-response.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesMasking Real Unemployment: The Overall and Racial Impact of Survey Non-Response on Measured Labor Market Outcomes
Mar 2021
A large and growing percentage of households are missed in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS).
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Article
A Big Fiscal Push is Urgent, The Risk of Overheating Is Small
Mar 2, 2021
The $1.9 trillion stimulus should be large because the need is large
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Article
The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Feb 25, 2021
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Feb 2021
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”
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Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Feb 23, 2021
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon
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Webinars and Events
Debt Talks Episode 6 | Who’s Afraid of European Banks?
Webinarwith Martin Arnold, Elena Carletti and Richard Vague; moderated by Thomas Fricke and Moritz Schularick
Hosted by Private Debt
Feb 23, 2021
Does the COVID recession still have the potential to turn into a broader financial meltdown?
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Article
To Fight Climate Change, Save Energy and Reduce Inequality
Feb 22, 2021
The IPCC was correct in emphasizing the need for early mitigation, but their analysis of possible growth trajectories appears to be faulty.
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Article
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone
Feb 22, 2021
“We’re building a data system, because you can’t really manage a city if you don’t know who’s there and what’s in it.”
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Article
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Feb 19, 2021
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
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Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Feb 18, 2021
Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable
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Article
Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few
Feb 18, 2021
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesArtificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
Feb 2021
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
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Article
George Soros and Rob Johnson Endorse an Appeal to the EU: Build a Green, Fully Employed, Resilient Economy
Feb 17, 2021
Revival of failed austerity policies of the past is simply not an option