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Materials for a course in economic growth based on the Jones and Vollrath textbook
When Scholars Collaborate With Tech Companies, How Reliable Are the Findings?
Uber and Lyft hailed a Cornell paper’s conclusion that their drivers make solid wages. But others have questioned the researchers’ approach.
Why do economists disagree?
Non-economists are often baffled by the disagreements among professional economists on the issues of the day--from international trade to the minimum wage, from economic development to health policy. I think the best way to understand the source of...
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Dani Rodrik
@IvanWerning It doesn't make sense even from a political-economy perspective (typically there are "barbarians" on the laissez-faire side of an issue as well). Here's something I wrote on this a while back, distinguishing first-best and second-best economists
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Covid-19 has revealed a pre-existing pandemic of poverty that benefits the rich
Governments must take seriously the human right to an adequate standard of living – or the poverty pandemic will long outlive Covid-19
Thread by @rodrikdani: A word about manufacturing, prompted by Biden’s “buy American” proposals. It is important to distinguish between production and employment.…
Thread by @rodrikdani: A word about manufacturing, prompted by Biden’s “buy American” proposals. It is important to distinguish between produ employment. + Manufacturing production exerts outsized influence on a nation’s innovative capacity and...
99 lawmakers demand ICE, DHS withdraw restrictions on international students
"ICE's proposed policy demonstrates a callous disregard for the harm this policy inflicts on international students," the letter from lawmakers said.
In ‘Buy American’ Speech, Biden Challenges Trump on the Economy
Joseph R. Biden Jr. laid out a populist vision with the tagline “Build Back Better,” part of an effort to confront President Trump on his strongest issue in polling.
Sovereign Creditors Must Not Rewrite the Rules During the Pandemic | by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Robert Howse and Anne-Marie Slaughter - Project Syndicate
If Argentina acceded to the demands of a group of hold-out creditors, it would create a disastrous precedent that would set back by more than a decade the development of the international legal architecture for sovereign debt. More than 70...
Covid-19 & Deglobalisation: what will the post-pandemic world look like? | by Econ Films - Project Syndicate
Since the era of hyper-globalization was already waning before the coronavirus pandemic arrived, de-globalization in its aftermath may well be inevitable. In the latest episode of CoronaNomics, Ben Chu of The Independent and Lizzie Burden of The...
China as Economic Bogeyman | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Many Western economists presume that governments are not very good at identifying industries that merit support, and that domestic consumers and taxpayers incur the bulk of the costs. By the same logic, if Chinese policymakers effectively targeted...
Covid-19 & Deglobalisation: what will the post-pandemic world look like? | CoronaNomics Ep 12
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented peak of economic global connectedness. But that trend was visibly weakening well before the coronavirus pandemic an...
On "Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity", by Douglas L. Campbell; Karsten Mau
Bloom, Draca, and Van Reenen (2016) find that Chinese import competition induced a rise in patenting, IT adoption, and TFP by up to 30% of the total increase in Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We uncover several coding errors in an...
Economics after Slavery and George Floyd
Slavery was and is a pathology of economics. Our long-standing failure to reflect that has caused us to mishandle our foundational concept of “an economic agent”. Correcting that will not only secure the integrity of our discipline at its core but...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EfIP: What Economics Misses About American Racial Inequality, an Interdisciplinary Perspective. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EfIP: What Economics Misses About American Racial Inequality, an Interdisciplinary Perspective. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Dani Rodrik
What does Economics miss about racial inequality? An interdisciplinary discussion organized by EfIP and moderated by Sandy Darity with Dania Ramey Berry, Arjumand Siddiqi, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, and Mario Small. At 430-530 ET Monday July 13th. Register
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The Plague Cycle
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and...
China Dominates Medical Supplies, in This Outbreak and the Next
Government support and protectionism have built a low-cost industry making masks, testing kits and other health gear. Other countries will find it tough to compete.
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Dani Rodrik
China owes a lot of its manufacturing prowess to local content requirements, as this article illustrates. But that raises a problem for economists. +
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