Most billionaires are people who run very important tollbooths in the economy
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Financial incentives are weaker than social incentives but very important anyway
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Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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China lets yuan tumble past seven per dollar as trade war escalates
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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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Consumer prices were on average fifty-six percent higher in Iceland than the rest of Europe in 2018
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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 story McKinsey didn’t want written
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Clamor is growing for Sweden to throw off its fiscal shackles after years of spending restraint
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Distributional analysis of Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
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Universal Basic Income - Life after automation
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Capitalism isn't 'broken'. It's working all too well - and we're the worse for it
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It’s been five years since Seattle’s landmark $15 minimum wage law. It not only helped workers — it raised their expectations about what's possible and what they deserve.
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Minimum wage will rise three per cent to $740.80 a week on Fair Work ruling
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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
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'It's a laughable fiction': How Uber's $82 billion valuation was built on a lie to its workers
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How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio (Founder of Bridgewater Associates)
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Why Budapest, Warsaw, and Lithuania split themselves in two
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Many Americans are too broke for bankruptcy. A new report suggests some fixes.
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What would happen if we just gave people money?
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A beginner’s guide to MMT
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What is the human cost to China's economic miracle? | Head to Head
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Australian economic growth slows, enters per capita recession
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