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  1. YSI Info Session & Panel Discussion:

    Political Economy and New Economic Thinking

    YSI

    Discussion

    Dec 13, 2018

    Learn about the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and join a panel discussion on Political Economy and New Economic Thinking with Thomas Ferguson, Perry Mehrling, and Katharina Pistor.

  2. Working Paper Series

    Labor Laws and Manufacturing Performance in India: How Priors Trump Evidence and Progress Gets Stalled

    By Servaas Storm

    Feb 2019

    For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.

  3. Working Paper Series

    The Contributions of Socioeconomic and Opioid Supply Factors to Geographic Variation in U.S. Drug Mortality Rates

    By Shannon Monnat

    Feb 2019

    Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths

  4. The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About

    By Lynn Parramore

    Apr 22, 2019

    “Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”

  5. U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair

    By ​Orsola Costantini

    Apr 19, 2019

    Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.

  6. Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

    By Dina Srinivasan

    Apr 17, 2019

    Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.