Archive
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Webinars and Events
Young Scholars Initiative Early Career Days
ConferenceNov 18–20, 2021
publishing • the job market • writing • teaching • mental health • work-life balance
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Article
2020’s Knife Edge Election: An Analysis
Nov 16, 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Knife Edge Election of 2020: American Politics Between Washington, Kabul, and Weimar
Nov 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Article
Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
Nov 15, 2021
The curious case of the Wall Street Journal article on Virginia and school vouchers
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Article
Trade and Development Backstory: The Struggle Over the UNCTAD 15 Mandate
Nov 10, 2021
Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.
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Video
Can Markets Save the Planet?
Nov 10, 2021
Graciela Chichilnisky has a plan to do exactly that.
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Article
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Nov 5, 2021
Economic journalist Martin Wolf’s address to the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University’s 20th anniversary conference, Economic Policy and Economic Theory for the Future
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Article
Economist Betsey Stevenson: Dads Seeking Time With Kids Will Drive Workplace Change
Nov 5, 2021
In a trend that has surprised social scientists, fathers are seeking better work/life balance and rejecting their pre-pandemic status as secondary parents – a movement that’s good for moms, too.
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Video
A New Vision for Economics Education
Nov 5, 2021
The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability.
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Article
Halloween Is Over - Are Corporate Zombies Still Out There?
Nov 4, 2021
Swift reorganization or liquidation of insolvent businesses is the single best policy to deal with corporate debt booms.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesZombies at Large? Corporate Debt Overhang and the Macroeconomy*
Nov 2021
Swift reorganization or liquidation of insolvent businesses is the single best policy to deal with corporate debt booms.
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Video
How Do We Create the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal?
Nov 3, 2021
Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a roadmap for both national and global financial reform to make it possible.
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Article
Dr John Nkengasong: A Collective Regional Approach Has Shown Its Power
Nov 2, 2021
An interview with John Nkengasong, Director of Africa CDC, about how a coordinated response to COVID-19 in Africa has proven to be effective
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Video
The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis
Nov 1, 2021
From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.
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Video
How China Escaped Shock Therapy
Oct 27, 2021
A story spanning thousands of years, there is far more to China’s market reformation than many Western scholars might have you believe.