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What the EU must do to compete—and become the leader the world needs
With the United States in retreat under the banner of “America First,” outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says ...
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An HKS scholar explores options for the U.S. health insurance system under Trump
Mark Shepard, a Harvard Kennedy School expert, looks at the crossroads facing the American health insurance system, a patched ...
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The Effectiveness of Indiscriminate Violence During Civil War
Why does states’ use of indiscriminate violence against civilians during civil wars weaken some insurgencies but strengthen others?
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PhD in Political Economy & Government
As of Fall 2022, the PhD in Political Economy and Government (PEG) will no longer be admitting students. Students may apply to the PhD Program in Public Policy (PPOL), or consider the PhD Programs in ...
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The Prophet - Lawrence Summers
November 2021, Interview: "TIE Founder and Editor David Smick interviews Larry Summers, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, top Obama economic adviser, and Harvard president. Summers’ recent ...
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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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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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Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes - Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
September 21, 2021, Book Chapter: "This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate ...
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Reimagining Capitalism - Rebecca Henderson
June 15, 2021, Video: "Rebecca Henderson teaches at the Harvard Business School, but she’s a vocal critic of “business as usual.” In fact, her scholarly research focuses on how we need to change ...
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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
April 2021, Paper: "We provide evidence of the stock market wealth effect on consumption by using a local labor market analysis and regional heterogeneity in stock market wealth. An increase in local ...
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What Does Bidenomics Look Like? Jason Furman
December 2, 2020, Audio: "In Washington, personnel is policy. The people President-elect Joe Biden has picked to run economic policy can tell us a lot about what we might expect from the next ...
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Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Insights From Big Data - Raj Chetty
July 23, 2020, Paper: "Children's chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century in America. How can we restore the American Dream of upward mobility ...