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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesPrivate Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Mar 2020
Private equity firms have become major players in the healthcare industry. How has this happened and what are the results?
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Article
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 23, 2020
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
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Article
Rule Number 1 for Government Bailouts of Companies: Make Sure Voters and Taxpayers Share in the Upside
Mar 23, 2020
If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.
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News
Rob Johnson on Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Mar 20, 2020
Rob Johnson discusses whether the recession will become a depression
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Article
MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”
Mar 19, 2020
The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.
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Collection
Learn Economics at Home
Stuck at home and already bored of Netflix? Then check out our #LearnEconAtHome series of video explainers you can watch from anywhere.
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Article
Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Mar 16, 2020
If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.
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Video
Why Data Is Like Fire
Mar 11, 2020
Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution
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Article
Who's Responsible Here?
Mar 9, 2020
Establishing legal responsibility in the fissured workplace
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesWho’s Responsible Here? Establishing Legal Responsibility in the Fissured Workplace
Mar 2020
This article proposes a new “Concentric Circle framework” which would improve workers’ access to civil, labor, and employment rights.
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Article
Let’s Get Real. Economists Have a Sex Problem
Mar 6, 2020
Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.
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Video
Measuring the Danger of Segregation
Mar 4, 2020
Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics
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Working Paper
ReportTaxpayer Investment Leads New Drug Discoveries
Mar 2020
New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade
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Article
Dakar Dialogue Brings Politics Back into Economic Thinking
Mar 2, 2020
A report from the Commission on Global Economic Transformation’s meeting in West Africa
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News
INET Plenary Rescheduled
Feb 28, 2020
In light of the growing concerns over the coronavirus, we have decided to postpone the INET Plenary to October 13-15, 2020 (originally slated for April 13-15, 2020)