Archive
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Video
The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Jan 31, 2022
Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, “The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake,” and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today’s competitive world.
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Article
Paper: Demography, Inclusive Growth and Youth Employment in Africa
Jan 26, 2022
The youth paradox is accentuated by the effects of Covid-19, while the concrete short- and medium-term prospects for young people remain unclear.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesWhy Diagnostic Expectations Cannot Replace REH
Jan 2022
A formal argument that Kahneman and Tversky’s compelling empirical findings, and those of other behavioral economists, do not provide a basis for a general approach to specifying participants’ “predictable errors.”
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Article
How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
Jan 24, 2022
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility becomes severely diminished
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesIndustrial Feudalism and Wealth Inequalities
Jan 2022
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility become severely diminished
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Article
Paper: Regional and Continental Integration in Africa in the Covid-19 Era: New Drivers and Perspectives
Jan 20, 2022
A review of regional integration in Africa
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Video
Legal Evil
Jan 19, 2022
From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth.
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Article
Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Jan 18, 2022
Researchers studying beasts that pass on resources and advantages to offspring have raised the old question of whether humans are destined to live in stratified conditions. Your view may depend on your relative position.
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Grant
Years granted:The Methodology of Systematic Risk
This research project explores the factors producing “herding” in the economics profession and professional investment community with the goal of articulating policy changes appropriate to the organization of the economics profession and its practices in particular.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011,Money and Empire: A Biography of the Dollar
This research project recounts the intellectual history of the dollar as an international reserve currency, starting with World War I, which brought the international gold standard to an end, and continuing all the way up to the present global financial crisis.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013,Robustness of Policy Analysis to Departures from Model-Consistent Expectations
This research project develops an approach to policy analysis in the context of a macroeconomic model that does not assume that people in the economy forecast the economy’s future evolution under any given policy in the same way as the policy analyst’s own model does.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,Legal Fiction: An Intellectual History of the COASE Theorem
This research project provides us with a greater understanding of why the Coase theorem came to captivate the minds of economics and legal scholars and how its impact on economics and law reshaped both the theoretical landscape and legal-economic policymaking.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,Economics: Value Neutral or Value Entangled
This research project demonstrates the ways in which fact and value are entangled in economic concepts and the implications of this entanglement for the ways in which various economic problems are approached.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,Estimation of Stock Flow Consistent Models
This research project develops, estimates, calibrates, and deploys a new class of stock flow consistent macroeconomic models to try to understand Ireland’s macroeconomic collapse since 2007.
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Article
Automotive Value Chains in a Brave New World
Jan 11, 2022
The pandemic and electrification are shaking the foundations of the auto industry