"Introducing an LPE symposium on the promise, the perils, and the possible future of cost-benefit analysis."

"The deceptive financial aid system at America's colleges"

Fascinating new research on how an influential group of economists hired by the oil and gas industry used models that inflated predicted costs of climate policies, while ignoring benefits. This is really important work.

"The bipartisan infrastructure bill recently passed by the Senate is a sign that US leaders are starting to think differently about government investment. For decades, legislators have tried to push down the cost of capital, believing it _...Read More_

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"Different people and groups have differing, and often opposing, goals that they value differently. That makes public discussion, compromise and agreement difficult."

"The economy needs careful decision-makers as well as risk-takers."

The funding is based on Bitwise’s track record of success in expanding opportunities for tech-related jobs in under-served communities in California.

"When mackerel started showing up in Iceland, it started a decade-long fight over how to divide the ocean’s riches."

"How did a tiny, poor nation manage to suffer only one death from the coronavirus?"

"Does anyone have an idea of how to blunt these differences and open more opportunities? Especially as a new administration faces all the economic, public health, law-enforcement, and other crises the new Biden team is about to take on? "

l read this article couple of days before, this article reminds me of Nicolas Talleb, and his recent statement that, whatever decision or stimulus government offers in future, somethings has permanently changed in the Economy, and some _...Read More_

>"The banks only have one thing to fear: their own greed and stupidity. They need to stop gambling with our money. Newton’s Third Law of Physics: For _...Read More_

An interesting counterfactual multi-country analysis that examines the economic consequences of Covid-19 and the effects to the interconnected global economy.