554 Results for “Coronavirus Means”
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Article
Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?
Apr 16, 2020
Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D
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Webinars and Events
The Good Life The Challenge of Progress in China Today
ConferenceSep 7–8, 2013
Every nation faces the challenge of imagining what a good life means. Sound nutrition, shelter, health care, personal safety, social stability, security of savings, clean air and water, and the development of children are among the elements of what many envision as vital to a happy and healthy society.
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Conference Session
Politics by Other Means? Eurozone Institutions and National Sovereignty in the Bank Bailout Negotiations
Apr 8, 2015 | 06:15—06:45
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesCitation Patterns in Economics and Beyond
Nov 2018
In this paper we comparatively explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis.
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Working Paper
Conference paperGlobalization and Scarcity: Multilateralism for a world with limits
Apr 2011
Globalization has improved the living standards of hundreds of millions of people – but growing resource scarcity means it risks becoming a victim of its own success.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesEmployment Mobility and the Belated Emergence of the Black Middle Class
Jan 2021
“Build back” means restoring the government and business investments in the productive capabilities of the U.S. labor force that created a growing middle class in the three decades after World War II
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Article
The Panama Papers: A Tropical Tip of the Hidden Wealth Iceberg
Apr 5, 2016
When billionaires pay less, we all pay more.
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Article
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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Video
Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Mar 27, 2019
Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare
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Article
The Political Economy of the French Pension System Reform(s)
Apr 22, 2020
Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?
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Video
Clinton Likely to Win, But Struggle in 2020 Unless She Changes Course
Oct 20, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking President Robert Johnson, in an appearance of the CNN International show Quest Means Business, warns that the anger of Trump’s supporters is unlikely to ebb absent significant economic and political changes — and that this anger could be more successfully marshaled by a more skilled and sophisticated Republican challenger four years from now.
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Article
Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Jul 7, 2020
Gilead’s shareholders want exorbitant profits from Remdesivir, even though it was the public that enabled its development.
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Working Paper
Conference paperMethodological Problems in Macroeconomics: Curriculum and Computers
Apr 2014
The financial crisis of 2008, and the subsequent worldwide economic depression and continuing dislocation, have made little to no impression on the way macroeconomics is taught at the university level, from Economics 101 through graduate school. It has been “business as usual’, which (it seems to me) means an almost studious avoidance of any attempt to acquire knowledge of how monetary economies actually work.
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The Money View
The idea of this blog is to engage current financial news and policy debates from the standpoint of the classics of monetary theory. We ask, “What would Bagehot say?”, “What would Minsky say?”, “What would Fischer Black say?” Like them, our starting point is the idea that capitalism is essentially a financial system, which means that we need to take a money view in order to understand how it works.
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Article
Kids Behind the Wall
Apr 12, 2012
On my way back home from the Brandenburger Tor, I recalled that I already have been there, it must have been in 1988.