Economics

Empowering David: How Smaller Firms Reconfigure National Dependency on Foreign Multinationals in the Era of Disruptive Technological Change
Business and Management INK
March 13, 2024

Empowering David: How Smaller Firms Reconfigure National Dependency on Foreign Multinationals in the Era of Disruptive Technological Change

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Revitalizing Entrepreneurship to Benefit Low-Income Communities
Business and Management INK
January 29, 2024

Revitalizing Entrepreneurship to Benefit Low-Income Communities

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The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s  Nobel Prize
Impact
October 12, 2023

The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize

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William E. Spriggs, 1955-2023: Economist And Racial Justice Advocate
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June 14, 2023

William E. Spriggs, 1955-2023: Economist And Racial Justice Advocate

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Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations

Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations

Robert “Bob” Lucas Jr., an economist, educator and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, died May 15. He was 85.

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The Role of Rhetorical Casuistry in China’s Capitalist Transformation

The Role of Rhetorical Casuistry in China’s Capitalist Transformation

The authors believe that the unique style of the CCP’s rhetoric in the first two decades of the reform era played a critical role in facilitating what they label as a “loosely coupled change”—changes wherein meanings and practices are weakly connected.

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Rebecca Blank, 1955-2023: Economist Devoted To Academia And Public Service

Rebecca Blank, 1955-2023: Economist Devoted To Academia And Public Service

Rebecca “Becky” Blank, an economist and administrator whose career spanned academe and the policy world, died of pancreatic cancer February 17 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was 67.

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Misunderstanding Markets – the Failure of UK Economic Policy

Misunderstanding Markets – the Failure of UK Economic Policy

Have sociologists better understood some of Adam Smith’s cautions than have economists?

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

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

This year’s Nobel prize in economics has gone to Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke for their work on banks and how they relate to financial crises. “The laureates’ insights,” said Tore Ellingsen, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, “have improved our ability to avoid both serious crises and expensive bailouts.”

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

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

Sharon Oster, “a pioneer in the field of organizational strategy” and the first woman to be named dean and tenured professor at Yale University’s School of Management, died of lung cancer on June 10.

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Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

The knowledge economy. Intellectual property. Software. Maybe even bitcoin. All pretty much intangible, and yet all clearly real and genuinely valuable. This is the realm where economist Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College London mints his own non-physical scholarship.

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Saving Private Business – The UK Bounce Back Loan

Saving Private Business – The UK Bounce Back Loan

Authors Marc Cowling, Paul Nightingale, Nick Wilson, and Marek Kacer find “everything researched and written about COVID-19 in whatever context – medical, […]

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