Archive
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Video
Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
Sep 27, 2017
“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power
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Conference Session
American Big Tech vs. China Big Tech: Common Challenges or Conflicting Concerns?
Sep 26, 2017 | 08:15—09:45
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Video
Economies Live in Societies. Why Do So Few Economists Acknowledge That?
Sep 20, 2017
Rather than continue to narrow the field, economists need to ask what they’re missing
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Working Paper
Working paperBubbles as violations of efficient time-scales
Sep 2017
It is commonly overlooked that the concept of market efficiency embowers a time-dimension. Illustrating with an example from the class of persistent random walks, we show that a price process can be a martingale on one time-scale but inefficient on another.
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YSI Event
Innovation, Institutions and Governance
YSI
ConferenceSep 16–19, 2017
The YSI Economics of Innovation Working Group in partnership with the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology is hosting a YSI Conference on “Innovation, Institutions and Governance”.
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Working Paper
Working paperEurope’s Zombie Megabanks and the Differential Regulatory Arrangements that Keep Them In Play
Sep 2017
This paper analyzes the link between Kamakura Risk Information Services (KRIS) data on megabank default probabilities and credit spreads.
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Video
Why Economists Need the Arts
Sep 13, 2017
Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss
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Article
Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
Sep 12, 2017
The path of austerity could spread economic pain and social woes far beyond the Caribbean island, says public debt expert Martin Guzman
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Video
Is Poverty More Worrying than Inequality?
Sep 6, 2017
Xavier Gabaix argues that public policies should prioritize alleviating deprivation at the bottom over narrowing the rich-poor gap
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Working Paper
Grantee paperWhere Modern Macroeconomics Went Wrong
Sep 2017
This paper provides a critique of the DSGE models that have come to dominate macroeconomics during the past quarter-century.
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Video
How Elite Financial Networks Rule the World
Aug 30, 2017
Personal connections are key to understanding concentrations of wealth and power
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Article
Political Economy, Technocracy, and the New Gilded Age
Aug 28, 2017
In this episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Robert Johnson, about the political economy, inequality, and the failings of our technocratic institutions.
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YSI Event
Capitalism, Technology, and Scientism
Threats to Democracy?
YSI
WorkshopAug 27, 2017
YSI Philosophy of Economics working group is organising a workshop preceding the INEM conference.
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Article
Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Aug 24, 2017
An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks
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Video
How About that Looming Robotic Job Apocalypse?
Aug 16, 2017
Why we should worry about job quality, not quantity—or robot overlords