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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans?predictable, error-prone…
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A dramatic drop in the price of oil has dominated business headlines in the last two months, and it’s affecting economies around the world. The outlook in…
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Economic inequality and minimum wage are becoming increasingly discussed topics during these turbulent economic times.Chris Fee, professor of English at…
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Have you ever heard of Wynne Godley? Those who read the front page of the Business section of the NY Times on Wednesday, September 11, might have seen the…
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Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since…
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Like Freakonomics, Dollars and Sex takes economics and converts it into a science by applying the principles of supply and demand, and other market…
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Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full…
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We speak with Enrico Moretti about The New Geography of Jobs .
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We speak with Michael Lind about his book, Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States .
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On April 17, the front page of the New York Times had an article about two economists. No, it was not about Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan who are very…