The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, grew to a record ten trillion Norwegian crowns ($1.09 trillion) on Friday
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Nobel winning economists experiment upon the poor, but their research doesn't solve poverty
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What randomization can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
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What the health care debate still gets wrong
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The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer
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Even Greece is getting paid to borrow money in debt markets
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Stockton's basic income trial: Early results show how money is spent
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Hypothetics: let's say it takes 1/100 of the current fuel to take a spacecraft out of Earth's atmosphere. What happens?
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the...
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the cost, 1/100 of volume and 100% more efficiency. What does it change in the short term?
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Blame economists for the mess we’re in: Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”
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Decoupling debunked : Green growth is incompatible with environmental sustainability, researchers find
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WeWTF : A look into WeWork S1 filing and business model
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Norway delivers rate hike that most economists weren't expecting
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Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy
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Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
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In sports, and in life, Europe and the United States see their societies differently—just not in the ways you might expect
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Productivity does not predict income
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The rise and fall of Iceland's tourism miracle – the widespread decline of tourism across the country presents intractable problems
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German fiscal frugality is the stuff of legends – but they have nothing on the abstemious Swedes
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You may be experiencing secular stagnation
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A Nobel-winning economist goes to Burning Man
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Houses are assets not goods: What the difference between bulbs and flowers tells us about the housing market
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Yield curve and predicted GDP growth
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Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in math-related fields
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Denmark's central bank roundly rejected finance industry entreaties to ease the burden of the world's longest negative interest-rate experiment
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From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works
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Iceland's central bank is prepared to cut interest rates again as an economic downturn is nearing a bottom amid a collapse in its tourism industry
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year
News article: How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year The study: The economic benefits of improving social inclusion
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America is obsessed with beef. But it has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
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Sweden economists call for green fiscal policy to stop recession
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What determines value?
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Sweden delivers neutral fiscal policy as recession fears grow
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A young mayor makes the case for a guaranteed income
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Yield curves invert in US, UK as ‘doom and gloom’ spreads
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Millennials - Interactive infographic by Goldman Sachs
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How the ‘IKEA effect’ subtly influences how you spend
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Norway's krone hit its lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis as global trade tensions drive down the price of oil
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Grenada’s revolution at forty
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China lets yuan tumble past seven per dollar as trade war escalates
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The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change?
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Five myths about global poverty
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Trump’s Budget Deal Shows Deficits Don’t Matter Anymore
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The IMF projects a revised downward global growth of 3.2% in 2019 and 3.5% in 2020
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Economics after Neoliberalism
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‘I need a superman for me’: Homeless home care worker advocates for better working conditions, a living wage
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Consumer prices were on average fifty-six percent higher in Iceland than the rest of Europe in 2018
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Raj Chetty's plan to fix the American Dream
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Why doing harm is profitable: You might think it’s always “bad for business” to cause disaster. You’d be very wrong!
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The future of the city is childless - America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births
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The economics of private jets
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