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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

What's Happening with Global Connectedness in the Pandemic?

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The last few decades have been a time of economic globalization. But that trend has been faltering for a few years now, with rising politica...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Intergenerational Mobility and Neighborhood Effects

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Raj Chetty delivered a keynote address titled "Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data," to the annual meeti...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Debt and Deficits: Nostalgia for the 1980s

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Back in the mid-1980s, the federal government under the Reagan administration ran what were widely considered to be excessive and risky budg...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Teaching Current Monetary Policy

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Most of the ingredients of the standard intro econ class have been pretty stable for a long time: opportunity cost and budget constraints, s...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Putting Monetary Values on Health Costs of Coronavirus

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W. Kip Viscusi delivered the Presidential Address at the (virtual) Southern Economic Association meetings last November on the subject ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

The Coming Evolution of Electric Power in the US

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Even readers who are only experiencing the Texas electricity disruptions from afar may wish to consider a new report from an expert panel at...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

India: Pivoting from the Pandemic to Economic Reforms

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Each year, the Economic Division in India's Ministry of Finance publishes the Economic Survey of India (January 2021). The first volume...