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Understanding Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights
Join us for a crucial discussion on the modern strategies used by illiberal governments to restrict LGBTQI+ rights and ...
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Covering tariffs: What journalists need to know
Join The Journalist’s Resource and Econofact for an hourlong, on-the-record webinar about the future of tariffs in 2025, days ...
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From insight to impact: Dean Jeremy Weinstein wants the Kennedy School to embrace and solve complex public problems
Weinstein’s views on the role HKS should play in the world were forged by his family history, his wide-ranging scholarship, and his real-world experiences in government.
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Structure, Interdependence, and Evolution of Globalization in Global Value Chains
September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus - David Cutler and Lawrence Summers
October 12, 2020, Paper; "The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the US has encountered since the Great ...
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Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship - Frank Nagle & Shane Greenstein
June 2020, Paper, "Does more activity in open source lead to more entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates - N. Gregory Mankiw
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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Borders of Prosperity: Immigration's Impact on the U.S. Economy
November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-skilled versus ...
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The Project on Impact Investments' Impact Investment Database
May 2020, Paper, "Impact investing has grown significantly over the past 15 years. From a niche investing segment with only $25 billion AUM in 2013 (WEF 2013), it experienced double-digit growth and ...
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The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure
2020, Book Chapter, "This internet barely existed in a commercial sense 25 years ago. In the mid1990s, when the data packets travelled to users over dial-up, the main internet traffic consisted of ...