Culture
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Conference paper
Assessing Development
Apr 2013
There are a number of possible purposes in assessing the level of economic development of a country or part of a country. The assessment may provide an incentive for better development, particularly if it can be compared meaningfully with assessments for other countries.
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What is Development?
Apr 5, 2013 | 08:30—09:15
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A new way of thinking in economics
Apr 2, 2013
What is the purpose of economics?
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The Consequences of a Leaderless Economy
Mar 26, 2013
What happens when there’s no leader in the global economy?
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Years granted:
2013
The Significance of Inequality: Between Economics and Philosophy
This research project shows what economists can learn from political philosophers in thinking about economic inequality while also investigating the philosophical significance of recent empirical work on inequality, within economics and elsewhere.
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What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer?
Sep 24, 2012
Can economics be morally centered? And perhaps more importantly, should it be?
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Grantee paper
Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender, Behavior, and Economics
Sep 2012
Would having more women in leadership have prevented the financial crisis?
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Grantee paper
Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Climate Change
Sep 2012
Many public debates about climate change now focus on the economic “costs” of taking action.
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Math or Society: Did Economists Forget Who They’re Supposed to Serve?
Jul 11, 2012
Has the servant’s servant become the master’s master?
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Hogarth and Soyer on the Hollow Men
Jun 30, 2012
A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.
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Conference paper
Andrew Haldane: Financial Arms Races
Apr 2012
Elephant seals have got too big for their beaches. A large specimen might weigh over 8000 lbs (3700 kg).Their size has a simple evolutionary explanation. Large males fight for the right to mate with a whole beach full of females. For elephant seals it is, quite literally, winner-takes-all. And the key to winning is simple – size.
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Conference paper
Real vs. Imagined Financial Markets The Regulatory Challenge
Apr 2012
We have grown accustomed to regulating financial markets based on imagined, not real markets. Real markets are shaped by and co-evolve with institutional arrangements within two fundamental constraints: Imperfect knowledge and the threat of illiquidity.
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Conference paper
Finance and Growth: When Credit Helps, and When it Hinders
Apr 2012
The financial sector can support growth but it can also cause crisis. The present crisis has exposedgaps in economists’ understanding of this dual potential.
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How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?
Apr 13, 2012 | 06:55—08:45
Many feel that due to its size and scale the financial system has become a burden on society rather than a servant to it. What are the key elements of a productive financial sector?
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Economic Thinking and Buddhist Thinking
This research projects aims to understand Buddhist thinking in rational choice terms and apply that to some important contemporary economic problems.