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Will the “Celtic Tiger” re-emerge or is Ireland’s recovery stunted by austerity programs?

With the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, the American public has become increasingly concerned about the scale and impact of inequality in economic life.

The flummery of capital-requirement repairs undertaken in response to the Great Financial Crisis.

How does the law interact with finance? Katharina Pistor on the paradoxical relationship between law and finance.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities to grow intellectually.

As the financial economy has expanded beginning in the mid-1980s, it has done so in part by selling more products to individuals and households.

We analyze the political environment in the wake of financial crises and try to infer its implications on decision making and economic policies.

We show how every stock-flow consistent model of the macroeconomy can be represented as a directed acyclic graph.

In the past decade and a half, state and local public employee retirement systems in the United States have significantly shifted their fund investment strategies toward a greater allocation in alternative investments. Today, roughly $660 billion of public pension funds are invested in hedge funds and private equity funds. These alternative investments typically require new governance structures within the pension funds in order to adequately monitor accompanying risks and returns, management fee arrangements and investment complexity.

Why do so many people who should know better argue that Neoliberalism ‘does not exist’?

What is the scale of effort that is actually required to initiate global cyber warfare? Amir Herzberg elaborates on cyber security, cyber warfare and basic privacy in the global digital age.

Can we learn something from philosophy students?

Many believe that we already have a healthcare problem. But let’s get this straight: healthcare is a solution. Joon Yun posits a new way of thinking about health, illness and aging.

Has the Dodd-Frank Act had its intended effect?

The 2007-2009 financial crisis initially appeared to have destroyed a huge amount of wealth in the U.S.