Breakthrough research and ideas that incorporate concepts beyond the traditional realm of economic experts.
Culture
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A Playlist That Conjures the Ferocity and Flair of Detroit
Jun 16, 2022
How can we develop a deeper, more human and multifaceted understanding of the past?
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Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Jan 18, 2022
Researchers studying beasts that pass on resources and advantages to offspring have raised the old question of whether humans are destined to live in stratified conditions. Your view may depend on your relative position.
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Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Feb 23, 2021
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon
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The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
Nov 25, 2020
The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
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Debt Talks Episode 2 | Debt, Wealth, and Racial Inequalities
Webinarmoderated by Moritz Schularick with Mehrsa Baradaran, Ashley C. Harrington, Darrick Hamilton and Louise Seamster
Hosted by Private Debt
Sep 15, 2020
Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.
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What is Work?
Jun 10, 2020
What counts as work and what doesn’t?
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What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism
Jun 11, 2019
Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth
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A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
Apr 2, 2019
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.
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Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Mar 27, 2019
Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare
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The Black Woman Economist Who Pioneered a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Feb 22, 2019
Decades before it caught on with other economists, Sadie Alexander was the first economist to recommend a government jobs guarantee in the US
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Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Feb 20, 2019
Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy
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Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Feb 14, 2019
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths
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Working Paper Series
The Contributions of Socioeconomic and Opioid Supply Factors to Geographic Variation in U.S. Drug Mortality Rates
Feb 2019
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths
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Why Economics Needs a Moral Dimension
Dec 7, 2018
Rob Johnson and Michael Sandel discuss the limits of rational choice
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The Limits of the “Rational Economic Man”
Nov 30, 2018
Greg Mankiw says there should be a market for kidneys, but not for paying drug addicts to get sterilized.