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A Note on Coursera CEO Rick Levin’s Clark Kerr Lecture…

In Conversation

In conversation with Sandra Black

Tax & Macroeconomics
TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Why enforcing U.S. labor standards may be more important than ever

Tax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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A Few Notes on the CUNY “After Piketty” Panel…

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Should-Read: Branko Milanovic: Liberation from the Shackles of Space

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Must-Read: Larry Summers: A warning on Trump’s budget: “You cannot use the growth benefits of tax cuts once to justify an optimistic baseline and then again to claim that the tax cuts do not cost revenue…

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Should-Read: James D. Hamilton: Why You Should Never Use the Hodrick-Prescott Filter

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U.S. over-education and underemployment over the course of a lifetime

Labor
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Should-Read: Michael Clemens: What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation