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Understanding Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights
Join us for a crucial discussion on the modern strategies used by illiberal governments to restrict LGBTQI+ rights and ...
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Covering tariffs: What journalists need to know
Join The Journalist’s Resource and Econofact for an hourlong, on-the-record webinar about the future of tariffs in 2025, days ...
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From insight to impact: Dean Jeremy Weinstein wants the Kennedy School to embrace and solve complex public problems
Weinstein’s views on the role HKS should play in the world were forged by his family history, his wide-ranging scholarship, and his real-world experiences in government.
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The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure
2020, Book Chapter, "This internet barely existed in a commercial sense 25 years ago. In the mid1990s, when the data packets travelled to users over dial-up, the main internet traffic consisted of ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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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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Can Trade Work for Workers? - Gordon Hanson
May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers
May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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How to Increase Taxes on the Rich - N. Gregory Mankiw
February 2021, Book Chapter: "I bring up this fact because we live in a time when inequality is high, when demonizing the rich is popular in some political circles, and when various policies are being ...
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Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make their Networks more Resilient. Here's How - Willy Shih
September-October 2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms everywhere. Coupled with a rise in economic nationalism, ...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study
January 2020, Paper, "Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these ...