554 Results for “Coronavirus Means”
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Economic Forecasting Models & Sanders Program Controversy
Feb 26, 2016
The Romer/Romer letter to Professor Gerald Friedman marks a turning point. It concedes that there are indeed important issues at stake when evaluating the proposed economic policies of Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. These issues go beyond the political debate and should be discussed seriously between and among professional economists.
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How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Mar 5, 2018
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations
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News
Charles Goodhart: Europe After the Crisis
Oct 20, 2011
Goodhart brings back on the table the 2% minimalist federal fiscal counterpart to monetary union: “As has been exemplified in the recent crisis, it is problematical to try to issue money without the power to support that via taxation. Equally without access to money (notably via taxes), the power to undertake counter-cyclical, or cross-country, stabilisation is limited. So, the second proposal is to revisit the exercise that was done, some twenty years ago, to assess what fiscal changes might be needed to accompany a single currency.”
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What Happens When a Noted Female Economist Fights Toxic Culture in the Field?
Sep 9, 2020
Claudia Sahm dares to call out systemic bullying and harassment that drives out talent and compromises science. Perpetrators are not happy.
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Conditional Optimism: Economic Perspectives on Deep Decarbonization
Dec 5, 2018
A response to economists who doubt our capacity to decarbonize while maintaining robust growth
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This is Water (or is it Neoliberalism?)
May 25, 2016
A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia
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Podcast
James Manyika
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Article
James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance
Nov 9, 2020
When segregationists fought against school integration, libertarian economist James Buchanan saw an opportunity for his private education plan
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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Dec 2, 2019
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
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Podcast
Brian Barnier
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Podcast
Jacqueline Edwards
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Podcast
John O'Neil
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Podcast
Warrington Hudlin
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A Response to John Kay: Elements of an Evolutionary Paradigm
Nov 17, 2011
INET published a paper, written by John Kay, that deals with the relationship between economics and the world we live in. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics spells out methodological critiques of economic theory in general, and of DSGE models and rational expectations in particular.