Economics

What Can This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Crises?
Recognition
October 11, 2022

What Can This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Crises?

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Sharon Oster, 1949-2022: Pioneer in Equality in Economics
News
July 25, 2022

Sharon Oster, 1949-2022: Pioneer in Equality in Economics

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Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles
Social Science Bites
June 1, 2022

Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

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Saving Private Business – The UK Bounce Back Loan
Business and Management INK
May 20, 2022

Saving Private Business – The UK Bounce Back Loan

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John List on Economic Field Experiments

John List on Economic Field Experiments

Behavioral economist John List talks about his work on field experiments and how research done in the natural world can lead to insights that otherwise might be hard to tease out in a lab.

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Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective

Understanding Internationalisation of Informal African Firms Through A Network Perspective

The work of Christopher Boafo, Richard Afriyie Owusu and Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain offers an understanding of the internationalization of informal smaller firms in two major enterprise clusters in a sub-Saharan African economy through a network perspective.

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Diversity in the U.S. Government: Let’s Look at the Economists

Diversity in the U.S. Government: Let’s Look at the Economists

A report from the Brookings Institution finds, at least in the case of economists, the U.S. government is roughly at the same place as academe when it comes to diversity.

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Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable

Nobelist David Card Made the Minimum Wage Respectable

This year’s Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Canadian -born but US-based economist David Card for his work with Alan Krueger in reversing the perception that raising the minimum wage inevitably reduces the number of jobs.

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2021 Nobels in Economics a Victory in the Credibility Revolution

2021 Nobels in Economics a Victory in the Credibility Revolution

The Nobel committee’s decision to award its economics prize for 2021 to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination […]

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The Worst Academic Field to be a Woman in?

The Worst Academic Field to be a Woman in?

There is no shortage of disciplines and industries rife with sexism. The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are particularly well known for their misogynistic […]

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Janet Yellen: The Social Scientist in Charge at Treasury

Janet Yellen: The Social Scientist in Charge at Treasury

Janet Yellen, appointed as the 78th secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in January, has a long history of work in and alongside the social sciences above and beyond her role as an academic economist and policy maker

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GameStop: A Story Without Heroes (or Villains)

GameStop: A Story Without Heroes (or Villains)

In the battle between the army of renegade Reddit retail traders and Wall Street’s hedge funds over unloved stocks like the Texan computer games retail chain GameStop, there has been a serious case of mistaken accusations on both sides. They are both being wrongly accused of manipulating the markets, but they are not.

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