Inequality & Distribution
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Explaining a Decade of Stagnation: Where Do We Go From Here?
Dec 14, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
A discussion with Steven M. Fazzari, INET Grantee and the Bert A. & Jeanette L. Lynch Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University.
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World Economic Roundtable
DiscussionExplaining a Decade of Stagnation: Where Do We Go From Here?
Dec 14, 2017
The World Economic Roundtable seeks to help the business, investment, and policy communities understand ongoing changes in the world economy and to promote a discussion of ideas that can advance the goal of a widely shared global prosperity.
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Nothing Natural About the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Nov 24, 2017
With unemployment reaching very low levels in major economies, despite low – and slowly rising – inflation, it’s time for central banks to rethink their reliance on the so-called natural rate. No numerical target for this rate can serve as an anchor for monetary policy.
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How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
Nov 16, 2017
From the Rust Belt to Rural America, Economic and Social Distress Helped Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Outcome
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Redefining Inequality
Nov 8, 2017
As the old lines continue to blur, what does inequality mean in the modern global economy? And, how does the economy need to evolve to address these changes?
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Core Fractures and International Relations
Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30
As dual economies transform countries, how does world politics adjust?
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Conference paper
Dualism and Economic Stagnation
Oct 2017
Can a Policy of Guaranteed Basic Income Return Mature Market Economies to les Trente Glorieuses?
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Conference paper
Wealth Creation and the Entrepreneurial State
Oct 2017
Building symbiotic public-private partnerships
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Reversing Dual Economies?
Oct 23, 2017 | 11:00
What can policy do to remedy the spread of dual economies in the developed world?
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Why Do Estimates of Immigration's Economic Effects Clash So Sharply?
Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30
Untangling the Facts about Immigration in the World Economy.
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James Heckman on Intergenerational Issues
Oct 22, 2017 | 05:15
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Taking the Con Out of Economics? The Limits of Negative Darwinism
Oct 22, 2017 | 12:00
What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data?
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Redefining Inequality
Oct 22, 2017 | 06:30
As the old lines continue to shift, what does inequality mean in the modern global economy? And, how does the economy need to evolve to address these changes?
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Nobel Laureates to Co-Chair Independent Commission on Global Economy
Oct 22, 2017
Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence and a global team of leading thinkers are calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Conference paper
The Vanishing Middle Class: The Growth of a Dual Economy
Oct 2017
Growing income inequality is threatening the American middle class, and the middle class is vanishing before our eyes. We are still one country, but the stretch of incomes is fraying the unity of our nation.