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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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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-wing Populism - Dani Rodrik
July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...
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Nobel perspectives - Michael Kremer
June 8, 2020, Audio"To help address the big questions that shape our world, UBS has sought out a number of Nobel laureates in the Economic Sciences to ask them to share insights and discuss their ...
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Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru
2020, Paper, "In emerging markets, a significant share of corporate loans are denominated in dollars. Using novel data that enables us to see currency and the cost of credit, in addition to several ...
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High Frequency Data and a Weekly Economic Index during the Pandemic - James Stock
December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus ...
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Experimentation, Innovation, and Economics
2020, Paper, "The experimental method not only helps identify causal relationships, but also provides economists with a rich sense of context, focuses research on specific practical questions, ...
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Inflation ahead? Even a top economist says it’s complicated - Jason Furman
June 21, 2021, Interview: "Two months of sharply rising prices have raised concerns that record-high government financial aid and the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low interest rate policies — when the ...
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Paul Reville on Redesigning Education in America
July 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Paul Reville, the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former ...