Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Thomas Piketty’s New Book Argues Inequality Isn’t Natural At All
Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we […]
Viewing 2024 Economics Nobel Through Lens of Colonialism’s Impact on Institutions
This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]
2024 SSRC Katznelson Fellow Lecture: The Economist as Plumber
In this Social Science Research Council Katznelson Fellow Lecture, Nobel Prize-winner Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will share her […]
Tavneet Suri on Universal Basic Income
Economist Tavneet Suri discusses fieldwork she’s done in handing our cash directly to Kenyans in poor and rural parts of Kenya, and what the generally good news from that work may herald more broadly.
Empowering David: How Smaller Firms Reconfigure National Dependency on Foreign Multinationals in the Era of Disruptive Technological Change
In this article, Sonja Avlijaš, Pavle Medić, and Kori Udovički reflect on foreign direct investment (FDI) and the way it impacts the development of political economies.
Revitalizing Entrepreneurship to Benefit Low-Income Communities
While entrepreneurship scholarship increasingly illustrates the limits of an individualized approach in commercial businesses, this thinking has not yet filtered through to how we strategize entrepreneurship in low income-areas.
The Many Wins Represented by Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize
Decades of research have seen economic historian Claudia Goldin methodically collate data and archival stories, detective style, to uncover explanations for the rise and fall (and rise again) of women’s paid employment over the centuries
William E. Spriggs, 1955-2023: Economist And Racial Justice Advocate
Economist William E. Spriggs, an educator, racial justice advocate and public sector leader whose work saw him operate at the highest levels of American policymaking, died June 6.
