Government & Politics
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The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
Apr 1, 2020
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
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The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
Mar 26, 2020
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
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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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Report
Taxpayer Investment Leads New Drug Discoveries
Mar 2020
New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade
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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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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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Free Market or Socialism: Have Economists Really Anything to Say?
Jan 14, 2020
On the Modern Economic Theory of Incentives, Markets, and Socialism
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Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
Jan 13, 2020
In an economic context that remains uncertain, the biggest loser of the UK elections may well be our health and that of the environment.
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The 2020 Election in Three Graphs
Jan 10, 2020
The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object?
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Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy
Dec 19, 2019
One thing is clear – the ‘get Brexit done’ slogan resonated in a country which had been living on a series of knife edges as one ‘crunch’ time after another came and went.
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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 15, 2019
Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll
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Working Paper Series
The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
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The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency
Dec 13, 2019
Many of the challenges facing the new EU Presidency will need to be addressed not only at the European level but within a reinvigorated multilateral framework.
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Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa
Sep 9, 2019
An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town