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Jean Pisani-Ferry : « N’attendons plus notre salut de la Banque centrale européenne »
CHRONIQUE. Nous touchons au bout des stratégies de soutien monétaire, explique l’économiste Jean Pisani-Ferry, qui préconise une relance verte pour répondre au risque de récession. Cette piste est, selon lui, la plus prometteuse.
Deal on U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact Takes Shape, Pelosi Says
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats are moving toward a deal with the Trump administration on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, which could result in a victory for the president.
This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing...
PDIA Toolkit
The PDIAtoolkit is designed to guide you through the process of solving complex problems which requires working in teams. We call it a Do-it-Yourself (DIY) kit, where the ‘you’ is a committed team of 4-6 people mobilized to work together to solve a...
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Dani Rodrik
@AtifRMian Yes! This is the kind of approach my colleagues and I have long advocated in our work on growth diagnostic and productive development ("industrial policy"). It is also what my HKS colleague Matt Andrews @governwell calls the PDIA approach
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Unbound — Heather Boushey
Many fear that efforts to address inequality will undermine the economy as a whole. But the opposite is true: rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to market competition. Heather Boushey breaks down the problem and argues...
Fact and fiction in Economics: The Role of Media and Social Media
How to separate fact and fiction in economics? Most people get their economics from the media, and increasingly from social media, where technical debates become highly polarised. How should economists try to communicate, and what should we expect...
A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas
Join Anand Giridharadas author of Winners Take All, in conversation with Belfer Center Executive Director Aditi Kumar on the perils of philanthropy and polic...
Gender differences in volunteer’s dilemma: Evidence from teamwork among graduate students
Undertaking logistical tasks in a teamwork setting exhibits a volunteer’s dilemma: it takes only one volunteer to take a costly action to generate a b…
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Dani Rodrik
A fascinating paper on how logistical tasks in teams (room reservations) are performed disproportionately by women, using observational data from a graduate professional school (HKS)
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JFK Jr. Forum: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas
Join Anand Giridharadas author of Winners Take All, in conversation with Belfer Center Executive Director Aditi Kumar on the perils of philanthropy and policy in the hands of the global elite.
Big Business Is Overcharging You
Corporate concentration costs the typical household $5,000 a year.
Esther Duflo on winning the Nobel, poverty and the macho ‘locker room’ culture of economics
Rock climbing is a bit like economics, according to Esther Duflo.
Kabinet wil staatsschuld fors verhogen voor extra investeringen
Het kabinet overweegt tientallen miljarden euro’s extra te lenen om daarvan toekomstige investeringen in infrastructuur, onderwijs en innovatie te ...
Good Economics for Hard Times
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 'Wonderfully refreshing . . . A must read' Thomas Piketty In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help...
Thread by @zeithistoriker: "This is a remarkable document, a joint effort led by @rodrikdani and Yang Yao, a snapshot of divergent expert beliefs about the trade war. D […]"
Thread by @zeithistoriker: "This is a remarkable document, a joint effort led by @rodrikdani and Yang Yao, a snapshot of divergent expert belde war. Dividing line still between faith in WTO and those who, as Feng Lu puts it, want to turn it “back...
How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash
The long read: Like the big banks, big tech uses its lobbying muscle to avoid regulation, and thinks it should play by different rules. And like the banks, it could be about to wreak financial havoc on us all