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Webinars and Events
Labor, Technology and Growth
ConferenceTowards A Gini Negative Solution
Feb 27–28, 2020
What will empower a worker to be able to make greater demands on a profitable economy or employer? The answer may be summed up in one word: leverage.
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Article
Kari Polanyi Levitt
Feb 26, 2020
Some Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Friendship and Appreciation
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Video
Polanyi on Polanyi
Feb 26, 2020
In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.
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Article
Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health
Feb 20, 2020
Freeing ourselves from reliance on fossil fuels is not only good for the planet and future generations. It also saves lives here and now, not just in the far future.
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Video
Saving Retirement
Feb 19, 2020
Is America facing a retirement crisis?
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Article
The New Hampshire Democratic Primary in One Graph
Feb 12, 2020
Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite.
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Article
Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Feb 11, 2020
Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly
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Article
Modeling Myths of Climate Change
Feb 10, 2020
How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesModeling Myths: On the Need for Dynamic Realism in DICE and other Equilibrium Models of Global Climate Mitigation
Feb 2020
We conclude that representing dynamic realism in such models is as important as – and far more empirically tractable than – continued debate about the monetization of climate damages and ‘social cost of carbon’.
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Article
A Money View of Keynes, Keynesians, and Post-Keynesians
Feb 4, 2020
The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesPayment vs. Funding: The Law of Reflux for Today
Feb 2020
The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution
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Article
Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
Jan 31, 2020
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesIs the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy? Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
Jan 2020
To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology
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Article
Demand-Side Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth
Jan 30, 2020
Without new economic thinking, macro policy will retain its deflationary biases and secular stagnation remains the ‘normal’.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth
Jan 2020
This paper argues that it is a mistake to dismiss secular demand stagnation as main cause of declining potential growth in the OECD.