Archive
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“Young African People See No Clear Future for Themselves”
Apr 14, 2021
An interview with African development specialist Bara Guèye
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« La jeunesse africaine n’a pas assez de visibilité sur son avenir »
Apr 14, 2021
Un entretien avec Bara Guèye
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Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Apr 13, 2021
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
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Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Apr 7, 2021
Hedge fund managers are pushing American firms to play Wall Street games instead of investing in technologies of the future. China doesn’t have that problem.
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Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
Apr 5, 2021
Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, transparent public service, Wikipedia is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech companies that it tries to obscure
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Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
Mar 29, 2021
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy. Antitrust expert Mark Glick explains how the U.S. went astray during the 1980s, and how to get back on track.
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Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mar 26, 2021
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse
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New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools Could be Dangerous
Mar 19, 2021
School re-opening push based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence
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The Economics of the 2021 American Rescue Plan
Mar 18, 2021
How to Get Relief to Those Who Need It. Gosia Glinska in Conversation with Anton Korinek
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The Full Case Against Ultra Low and Negative Interest Rates
Mar 17, 2021
There are several reasons why unprecedentedly low interest rates will probably not stimulate demand and may even threaten financial stability
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The Standard Economic Paradigm is Based on Bad Modeling
Mar 8, 2021
The New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) is a straightjacket for macroeconomics
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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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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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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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The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Feb 25, 2021
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”