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Chile鈥檚 Outburst of Discontent


Payroll Share, Real Wage and Labor Productivity Across US States
States can be sorted into two groups with statistically significantly different productivity regimes. In this sense, the US economy shows signs of dualism—which is the idea that the economy consists of heterogeneous units that exhibit different behaviors and levels of performance.

CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.

Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: 鈥淚t鈥檚 Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples鈥
Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what鈥檚 right for America鈥檚 kids
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy

Rule Number 1 for Government Bailouts of Companies: Make Sure Voters and Taxpayers Share in the Upside
If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.

MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People 鈥淕oing to Get Squashed鈥
The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.
Kari Polanyi Levitt

Modeling Myths of Climate Change
How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages

A Money View of Keynes, Keynesians, and Post-Keynesians
The central bank today is not just the government鈥檚 bank, but also a bankers鈥 bank, a truly hybrid institution

Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy
One thing is clear 鈥 the 鈥榞et Brexit done鈥 slogan resonated in a country which had been living on a series of knife edges as one 鈥榗runch鈥 time after another came and went.