Economic Geography
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Why is America So Anti-City? It Holds Back the Entire Country.
Mar 20, 2023
A new book by economist Richard McGahey examines the country’s anti-urban structure and ideology, offering insights on how American cities can thrive.
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The Return of Asia in the 21st Century
Apr 14, 2022
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the rise of plutocracy and Asia’s renewed rise - after having fallen behind in the last 200 years - to its growing sense of dynamism, optimism, and diversity. This is the 200th episode of the podcast Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson.
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INET at the Trento Economics Festival
ConferenceThe Return of the State: Businesses, Communities, Institutions
Jun 3–6, 2021
Watch INET at the Trento Economics Festival online
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Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.1
ConferenceCapsule One: Strategic Patience and Flexible Policies: How India Can Rise To the China Challenge
6:00pm-7:30pm (IST)
Apr 22, 2021
A new age virtual conference series in 2021 that aims to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
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Working Paper
The Geography of New Technologies
Jun 2020
Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?
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Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Jun 20, 2019
There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.
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Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?
Mar 4, 2019
Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes housing and what economists have in common with city planners