Government & Politics
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America at the End of Its Tether
Nov 4, 2024
Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
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The Other Dangerous Supremacy: Wealth Supremacy
Oct 21, 2024
Author and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Democracy Collaborative, Marjorie Kelly, talks about her recently released book, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023), which also outlines a vision for democratizing the economy so that it serves the broader public good.
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America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future
Oct 10, 2024
Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.
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Working Paper
Setting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices: What the Medicare Negotiators Need to Know About Innovation and Financialization
Sep 2024
Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
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Strategy Roundtable During UN General Assembly (UNGA)
DiscussionSep 23, 2024
Strategizing on Addressing the Planetary Emergency and Unlocking Opportunities for an Exponential Just Transition
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What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Sep 22, 2024
Medicare Needs a Perspective on “Collective and Cumulative Learning” in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations
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After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
Jun 27, 2024
The most crucial issue in European policy, and one on which no big party campaigned and no important public discussion took place, was the fiscal policy stance for the next few years.
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Turin Festival of Economics 2024
ConferenceMay 30–Jun 2, 2024
Who owns knowledge?
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Winning Back the People: The Berlin Summit
ConferenceMay 27–29, 2024
In the global super election year of 2024, populists are threatening to experience a new upswing almost everywhere – whether in the USA, the EU or in East Germany. What makes so many citizens so dissatisfied? What could help win people back and restore their trust in liberal democracy?
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The Second Coming? Trump vs. Biden
May 17, 2024
How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election approaches?
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Working Paper
Trump versus Biden: The Macroeconomics of the Second Coming
May 2024
The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple reliance on interest rates to control inflation.
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The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
May 16, 2024
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has plainly been well-earned.
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Work Longer, Die Sooner! America's Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
May 8, 2024
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors.
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Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Apr 5, 2024
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
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Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire
Feb 2, 2024
This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party