Government & Politics
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The Rise of Fake News
Nov 2, 2018
Right-wing news sources have stopped playing by the rules of journalism
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Big Money—Not Political Tribalism—Drives US Elections
Oct 31, 2018
Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
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Economic Distress Did Drive Trump’s Win
Oct 31, 2018
Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
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Working Paper Series
The Economic and Social Roots of Populist Rebellion: Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Oct 2018
This paper critically analyzes voting patterns in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”?
Oct 24, 2018
Donald Trump, democracy, and how the wealthy crush the American Dream
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1st GLOBELICS pre-Conference for Young Scholars
Workshop Series on Financing of Innovation and Infrastructure for Development
YSI
WorkshopOct 23, 2018
The YSI Economics of Innovation, Economic Development and Africa Working Groups, in partnership with Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS), Globelics Alumni, are organizing the 1st GLOBELICS Pre-Conference for Young Scholars entitled ‘Financing of Innovation and Infrastructure for Development’.
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Partisan Frenzy Rules Washington, but Does it Have to Rule Americans?
Oct 22, 2018
To connect across difference is the only thing that will save us from rule by the privileged few.
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Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
Oct 10, 2018
Reactions to the size of the proposed plan rely on discredited assumptions and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of economic growth—and austerity
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Endogenous Preferences and the Consequences of Economic Incentives
Workshop by the YSI Behavior and Society Group
YSI
WorkshopOct 5–7, 2018
Young scholars in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics, philosophy, and related disciplines will be given the opportunity to present their work at a workshop in New York. Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute), Shaun Hargreaves Heap (King’s College London) and Mario Rizzo (New York University) will also present their work and give feedback to the young scholars.
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The End of American Exceptionalism
Oct 3, 2018
“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today
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Why Dodd-Frank Is a Shell Game for Banks
Sep 27, 2018
Ten years after the crisis, financial regulation leaves taxpayers holding the bag for banks’ safety net.
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Working Paper Series
Double Whammy: Implicit Subsidies and the Great Financial Crisis
Sep 2018
This paper concerns itself with the joint effect of implicit subsidies that are built into the US housing-finance system and financial safety net.
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The 2008 Global Financial Crisis as History - YSI Webinar series
YSI
Sep 25, 2018
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. …This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.” This YSI Webinar and Reading Group aims to contribute to the historicization of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its repercussions.
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The Rise of the Radical Right in Scandinavia
Sep 21, 2018
After Sweden’s elections, a look at how immigration and economics explain a political puzzle
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America’s Broken Retirement System is a Recipe for Political Chaos
Aug 27, 2018
Expanding, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution