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“No one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis”
As the 29th United Nations climate change conference concluded, former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry ...
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Marcella Alsan named Humboldt Research Award winner
Marcella Alsan, the Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the Humboldt Research ...
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Unemployment insurance benefits buffered workers from negative effects of joblessness during COVID-19
Research from the Shift Project at Harvard Kennedy School shows that service sector workers who lost their jobs during the ...
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How AI can affect productivity in public service delivery
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Data-Smart City Solutions researcher Juncheng “Tony” Yang, find that ...
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Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash
Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held view of mass ...
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Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
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The Virtues and Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities - David J. Collis and Bharat N. Anand
2020, Paper: "Dynamic capabilities have been identified as a key determinant of competitive advantage. This paper explores the foundations of dynamic capabilities, and the limits to their ...
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Socialism or Capitalism? Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate - Arthur Brooks
April 15, 2021, Video: "Half of Americans under forty say they would “prefer living in a socialist country.” A self-described “Democratic socialist” surged to an early lead in the 2020 Democratic ...
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Benjamin Friedman
January 2021, Book: "Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets–among economists as well as many ordinary citizens–is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a ...
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Public Leadership with a Moral Purpose: A Phenomenological View - Dana Born
Winter 2021, Paper: "Interest in the features of the development of character, specifically one’s capacity for moral purpose and moral leadership, have led to an expanding concern within many higher ...
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Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes - Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
September 21, 2021, Book Chapter: "This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate ...
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Trade Surplus or Deficit? Neither Matters for Changes in Manufacturing Employment Shares - Robert Lawrence
September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller ...