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4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 23, 2020
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
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Rule Number 1 for Government Bailouts of Companies: Make Sure Voters and Taxpayers Share in the Upside
Mar 23, 2020
If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.
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MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”
Mar 19, 2020
The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.
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Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Mar 16, 2020
If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.
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Who's Responsible Here?
Mar 9, 2020
Establishing legal responsibility in the fissured workplace
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Let’s Get Real. Economists Have a Sex Problem
Mar 6, 2020
Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.
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Dakar Dialogue Brings Politics Back into Economic Thinking
Mar 2, 2020
A report from the Commission on Global Economic Transformation’s meeting in West Africa
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Kari Polanyi Levitt
Feb 26, 2020
Some Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Friendship and Appreciation
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Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health
Feb 20, 2020
Freeing ourselves from reliance on fossil fuels is not only good for the planet and future generations. It also saves lives here and now, not just in the far future.
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The New Hampshire Democratic Primary in One Graph
Feb 12, 2020
Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite.
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Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Feb 11, 2020
Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly
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Modeling Myths of Climate Change
Feb 10, 2020
How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages
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A Money View of Keynes, Keynesians, and Post-Keynesians
Feb 4, 2020
The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution
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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
Jan 31, 2020
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
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Demand-Side Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth
Jan 30, 2020
Without new economic thinking, macro policy will retain its deflationary biases and secular stagnation remains the ‘normal’.