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How to Accommodate a Massive Surge in Absentee Voting
A surge in absentee voting is inevitable. Here are five steps to make sure the election still works.
Paul Krugman’s Epic Summer | National Review
Assessing Mr. Krugman’s record on schooling, the economic recovery, and taxation.
To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage
Diversity and inclusion programs for elites are tokens. A large wage increase that would most benefit the Black working class is far better.
Trapped in the Middle?
There is growing evidence that overcoming the low-income threshold and reaching middle-income status is not sufficient for countries to converge toward high-income levels. Few middle-income countries have successfully completed that transit in...
What Makes Mike Pence’s Complicity So Chilling
The vice president will be remembered as the great enabler.
Economics Observatory | Could a national investment bank support recovery from the Covid-19 crisis?
Questions and answers about COVID-19 and the impact on the UK economy
The Future World Order: Digital Trade
Dani Rodrik
Looking forward to moderating panel discussion on Digital Trade and the Future of World Order with Meredith Crowley, Greg Shaffer, and Mark Wu, on Oct. 30, 12-1:30 EDT. Register here
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Dani Rodrik
Looking forward to moderate panel this Friday at noon on Digital Trade and the New World Order with Meredith Crowley, Gregory Shaffer, and Mark Wu. Details and signup at
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Regional inequalities and the West-East divide in Turkey since 1880
Unlike for developed countries, only a limited number of studies exist on the long-term evolution of regional inequalities in today’s developing countries. With the help of a novel dataset, this
Affiliate Fellow: Labour Economist | Bruegel
Bruegel is recruiting a Labour Economist.
Deadline for application 06 November 2020 18.00 CET
Dani Rodrik: el premio Princesa de Asturias que pone interrogantes a la globalización
Sin estar en contra de la globalización, el economista turco considera que se ha ido demasiado lejos al intentar conciliarla con los intereses nacionales.
Weatherhead Scholars Program
Weatherhead Scholars Program
From the Washington to the Latin American Consensus
José Antonio Ocampo outlines the five development objectives of the new Latin American Consensus.
Participatory practices at work change attitudes and behavior toward societal authority and justice
Local participatory experiences can influence broader democratic attitudes and participation. Here, in two field experiments in US and China, the authors find that participatory work meetings led workers to be less authoritarian and more critical...
Unemployed Without a Net - The Shift Project
Few Unemployed Service Sector Workers Received UI and Many Experienced Hardships Research Brief The effect of the coronavirus outbreak on the U.S. labor market has been profound. In the early weeks of the outbreak, the unemployment rate skyrocketed...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Persistence of Racial Inequality. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The seemingly intractable problem of racial inequality in the United States – despite periods of tremendous progress – is evident in numerous measures of disparity (poverty rates, educational achievement, household net worth, homicide and...