The Rising Importance of Soft Skills
What skills are most important for an employee to succeed at Google? Back in 2013, the company undertook Project Oxygen to answer that quest...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined?
In the decades after World War II and up into the 1980s, the US economy experienced regional convergence: that is, the economies and incomes...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
A Puzzle: Why Do Retail Chains Charge Uniform Prices Across Stores?
Imagine yourself as the profit-seeking owner of a chain of retail stores. Would you charge the same (or nearly the same) price across all th...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
What's Wrong with Macro? A Symposium from the Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Macroconomists were notorious for their disagreements before 2007. Such wrangling only increased with the carnage of the Great Financial Cri...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Bitcoin and Illegal Activity
One of the main attractions of bitcoin is its anonymity, which is worth the most to those who are carrying out questionable or illegal trans...
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Textiles: Your Clothes are Pollutants
"[T]he way we design, produce, and use clothes has drawbacks that are becoming increasingly clear. The textiles system operates in an a...
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Attributing Economic Outcomes to Presidents: Year One of Trump
The US economy has performed well on a wide variety of measures in the year since President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. The ...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
The Global Output Gap Has Closed: What Next?
A decade after the global financial crisis circa 2008, the global economy has finally recovered. Tthe Global Economics Prospects 2018 report...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Snapshots of Economic Inequality Around the World
Compiling data on economic inequality from countries all around the world is a hefty task, which has been shouldered by a group of more than...
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Monday, January 15, 2018
Some Economics for Martin Luther King Day
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law establishing a federal holiday for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to be c...
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Friday, January 12, 2018
The Problem of Questionable Patents
The theoretical case for patents is clear enough: if you want people and companies to have an incentive for investing money and time in seek...
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Here's a slightly obscure passage that made me cackle. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the virtues were considered to be philosoph...
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The interaction of a bubble in real estate prices with the banking and financial sector drove the US economy into the Great Recession. For a... -
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law establishing a federal holiday for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to be c...
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