Archive
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Climate Finance: Where Does the Money Come From and Who Gets It?
Aug 7, 2023
Reaching climate goals means rich countries must invest in sustainable technologies in developing countries with huge energy needs.
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Article
As the Ukraine War Drags On, It’s Time to Reassess the Impacts of Sanctions
Aug 2, 2023
The bundle of sanctions was initially designed and imposed in haste, with little basis to assess historic performance.
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Article
Inflation Narratives and Their Consequences
Jul 31, 2023
On the reflexive relationship between inflation and inflation narratives
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Central Banks and Income Distribution: Does the Taylor Rule Push Up Rentier Incomes?
Jul 27, 2023
The effect of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income
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Working Paper
Working PaperIs “Inflation First” Really “Rentiers First”? The Taylor Rule and Rentier Income in Industrialized Countries
Jul 2023
Central banks strongly favored rentier incomes in their reaction functions
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Article
We Need a Double Pronged Public-Private Approach to Food Security
Jul 19, 2023
Dr. Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA, on how the Ukraine conflict has been a big wake-up call for many African governments, the huge importance of investing in soils, and her frustration at the slow pace of climate mitigation.
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Video
The Economics of Childhood
Jul 19, 2023
If we can measure mobility, we can raise a better society.
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Article
Why is Getting Old So Hard and Expensive in America? New Book Challenges How We Think.
Jul 18, 2023
In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert M.T. Connolly, who served as coordinator of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, offers both a warning and challenge: the systems we rely on to protect us as we age haven’t caught up to our longevity. Good news: we have the tools to build better ones.
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Article
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
Jul 13, 2023
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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Article
The Origins of the Investment Theory of Party Competition
Jul 13, 2023
Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule
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Video
Background Is Not Destiny
Jul 12, 2023
Do we care about children, or do we just care about our own children?
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Article
Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship
Jul 6, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind reveal how centuries of belief in infinite growth on a finite planet have put us all in danger
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Video
Dependency Theory & the Decolonization of Economics
Jul 5, 2023
Rethink global economics with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven as she delves into the Eurocentric nature of the field and the role dependency theory could play in decolonizing it.
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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Video
Solidarity Economics
Jun 28, 2023
How do we transform societal structures and pave the way to economic democracy?