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The Long Battle For A Living Wage Goes On
Aug 30, 2013
The battle for a living wage for the nation’s poorest workers is set against the backdrop of mass unemployment and the highest level of economic inequality in the U.S. in almost a century.
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Video
The Euro Crisis - The Spanish Perspective
Aug 27, 2013
Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Hans-Joachim Voth talks about the crisis in Europe.
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Article
Why is economic sense so often morally appalling?
Aug 20, 2013
what is economically correct must always be balanced with what is morally right.
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Video
Are Central Bankers Trying To Do Too Much?
Aug 19, 2013
William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee (EDRC) at the OECD in Paris
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Article
What Was the Real Cost of the Great Recession?
Aug 18, 2013
We are coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Lehman crash in September 2008. How bad was it? Have we fixed the problems?
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Video
Making Finance Work for Innovation
Aug 12, 2013
How can we get the financial sector back to serving its intended function?
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Article
Katharina Pistor: The Legal Theory of Finance
Aug 9, 2013
economists still conceive of law too narrowly, mainly as a means to reduce transaction costs and protect investors.
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The State of the Global Economy - A Central Banker's Perspective
Aug 5, 2013
Why didn’t central banks see the financial crisis coming?
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Working Paper
Grantee paperWhere Did All the Money Go? Stimulus in Fact and Fantasy
Jul 2013
The Obama stimulus remains controversial even as we approach the fourth anniversary of its launch.
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Article
Detroit, and the Bankruptcy of America’s Social Contract
Jul 31, 2013
What does the bankruptcy of Detroit say about the US social contract?
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Video
The Future of China and the RMB - A Historical Perspective
Jul 29, 2013
Should China internationalize the RMB? Will it take the lead on sustainable development? Can it maintain growth and productivity?
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Article
Understanding Bank Liquidity
Jul 28, 2013
The shortage of liquidity in the interbank market in China has sparked off a fear of “monetary famine.” This seems rather odd when the national savings rate is 50 per cent of GDP
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Article
Why Economics Needs Economic History
Jul 28, 2013
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What Japan and the UK Demonstrate about Macroeconomic Stimulus
Jul 27, 2013
Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discussing the lessons of macroeconomic stimulus provided by the recent histories of Japan and Great Britain.
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Article
When Is the Time for Austerity?
Jul 26, 2013
Recent austerity policies have been guided by ideology rather than research. This column discusses research that reconciles disparate estimates of fiscal multipliers in the literature. It finds that common identification assumptions are problematic. Matching methods based on propensity scores show how contractionary austerity really is, especially in economies operating below potential.