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The policy change needed now to avoid a climate-driven global food crisis
Economist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Wolfram Schlenker warns that reduced funding for agricultural research and ...
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Technological Complexity and U.S.-China Nuclear Competition
Drawing from scholarship in complexity theory and science and technology studies, the speaker argues that nuclear ...
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong & How We Can Reboot
Join Jeremy Weinstein, Harvard Kennedy School Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, as he discusses his book ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights in the U.S.
Event Description: As advocates in the United States brace for attacks on LGBTQI+ rights from an emboldened anti-LGBTQI+ movement employing the illiberal playbook, it is crucial to learn from those ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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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 Brief History of Default - Edwin Truman
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...
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Trade Surplus or Deficit? Neither Matters for Changes in Manufacturing Employment Shares - Robert Lawrence
September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller ...
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Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the 21st Century
November 2019, Paper: "After a period of decline in interest and premature predictions of demise, industrial policy is back on the scene. A variety of trends have contributed to the renewed interest.
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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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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...