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The Growth Lab founder says active government approaches blending markets and smart planning can drive prosperity and the clean energy transition, but protectionism looms as roadblock. Economic ...
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AI can make governing better instead of worse. Yes, you heard that right.
Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan explain the guidelines, guardrails, and principles that ...
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Why the Panama Canal is on President Trump's agenda
Economic development scholar Ricardo Hausmann explains the history of the canal, Panama’s investment and development of the ...
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Big Tech and Competitive Harm: Finding The Best Path to Innovation
In what circumstances, if any, should economies accept harm to competition in the name of innovation? Jon Sallet, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow, Special Assistant Attorney General to the State of ...
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The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance - Lucian Bebchuk
March 2, 2020, Paper: "Corporate purpose is now the focus of a fundamental and heated debate, with rapidly growing support for the proposition that corporations should move from shareholder value ...
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A study of more than 250 platforms a reveal why most fail
May 2019, Paper, "Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. In our newly-published book, we divide all platforms into two types: Innovation platforms enable ...
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Economics from a Historical Perspective
2015, Video, "Economics from a Historical Perspective(Nathan Nunn(Harvard University, Professor of Economics)): Economist Nathan Nunn will discuss the role that history plays in understanding ...
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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers
May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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The Past and Future of Econ 101: The John R. Commons Award Lecture
January 2020, Paper, "The introductory economics course, often called Econ 101, is where most economists get their start and where many students receive their only exposure to the field. This essay ...
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Economic Inequality Shapes Judgments of Consumption - Michael Norton
October 12, 2021, Paper: "Economic inequality affects not only how individuals judge and behave in their own lives, but also how those individuals’ judge and behave toward others – both people and ...
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Peak China Housing - Kenneth Rogoff
August 2020, Paper: "China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even before the Covid-19 shock, a decades-long housing boom had ...
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The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation - Ethan Rouen
September 21, 2021, Paper: "We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from pub licly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this ...