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Research Program News
Creating Flourishing Lives: The Dynamics of Capability Formation
Sep 16, 2015
Professor Heckman was invited to speak at the HDCA 2015 Conference as the keynote speaker for the Amartya Sen Lecture. The presentation offered recent research on the economics of creating flourishing lives, discussing the importance of cognitive skills, character skills and health.
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Article
Max Roser collaborates with Hans Rosling on BBC Documentary
Sep 16, 2015
Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford researcher Max Roser recently collaborated with world famous Swedish statistical showman Hans Rosling on the upcoming documentary ‘Don’t Panic: How To End Poverty In 15 Years’.
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Travelling Knowledge and Tools
Sep 15, 2015
News about a wonderful workshop, “Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts”
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesWealth Concentration, Income Distribution, and Alternatives for the USA
Sep 2015
US household wealth concentration is not likely to decline in response to fiscal interventions alone.
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Video
Intersections of Psychology and Economics
Sep 11, 2015
Tania Singer on the key importance of understanding preferences and behavioral change.
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Article
Why Carried Interest is Suddenly the Inequality Flashpoint
Sep 11, 2015
A little-understood rule in the tax code is making headlines. What’s all the fuss?
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesAre Low Interest Rates Deflationary? A Paradox of Perfect- Foresight Analysis
Sep 2015
A prolonged period of extremely low nominal interest rates has not resulted in high inflation. This has led to increased interest in the “Neo-Fisherian” proposition according to which low nominal interest rates may themselves cause inflation to be lower.
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Article
Why You Shouldn’t Fear China’s Devaluation
Sep 1, 2015
If anything, it points to a better managed global financial system and a more resilient Chinese economy.
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Video
China and the Challenge of Economic Reform
Aug 27, 2015
Bursting Bubbles leave a mess – in the markets, throughout the real economy, in societies, in politics and with policymaking.
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Article
Feminist Economists Challenge Austerity That Harms Women
Aug 24, 2015
Economist Alicia Girón explains why a feminist perspective is crucial to new economic thinking.
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Video
The Death of Neo-Liberalism
Aug 20, 2015
The financial crisis of 2008 was not a run of the mill recession.
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Working Paper
Working paperTowards a General Theory of Deep Downturns
Aug 2015
This paper, an extension of the Presidential Address to the International Economic Association, evaluates alternative strands of macro-economics in terms of the three basic questions posed by deep downturns: What is the source of large perturbations? How can we explain the magnitude of volatility? How do we explain persistence?
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Article
Joseph Stiglitz: “Deep-seatedly wrong” economic thinking is killing Greece
Aug 19, 2015
The latest austerity deal is terrible for Greece and Europe.
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Video
How do we move beyond the “austerity” debates?
Aug 15, 2015
And how do they relate to our democratic institutions and institutional social relations?
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Article
Is it Just a Greek Problem?
Aug 13, 2015
In the last couple of months, Greece has once again become the center of attention of politicians, academics, and the general public. The debate has, for a large part, focused on Greece’s fiscal deficit as if it were just a self-inflicted Greek problem. But is it?