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Monday, April 6, 2020

Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Positive Option?

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When I think of my children--now young adults--getting a "job," what I am hoping for is  an arrangement between an employer and an...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Patents and Competition: Thomas Edison, Xerox, Bell Labs, Medtronic

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Patents are a tradeoff: they let an inventor escape direct competition, but only for a limited time and for a specific product, and in this ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Is It Getting Harder for Research to Boost Productivity?

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New technologies are the beating heart of productivity growth and a rising standard of living. But Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Va...

CBO: GDP Falls 7%, Unemployment Hits 10% in Second Quarter 2020

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Phillip Swagel, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, blogs on " Updating CBO’s Economic Forecast to Account for the Pandemic...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Urbanization: Glaeser's Presidential Address to the Eastern Economic Association

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Urban areas have traditionally been engines of prosperity and social mobility. But the technologies driving changes in urban structure and t...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Aging, the Demographic Transition, and the Necessary Adjustments

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David E. Bloom has been thinking a lot about aging. Last fall he edited L ive Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations , a fre...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

An Economist's First Tryst with Benefit-Cost Analysis

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Célestin Monga has had an eminent career as a research economist at the World Bank, as Managing Director of the UN Industrial Development Or...