Politics and COVID
Bob Pozen on the market and economic issues of the day as well as the winner of the first Miriam Pozen Prize.
Bob Pozen on the market and economic issues of the day as well as the winner of the first Miriam Pozen Prize.
"Just as our adversaries are launching a powerful and escalating attack on our democracy, we’re letting our guard down."
If you think long and hard about the climate crisis...you may conclude, like Andrew McAfee does, that we don't have the right kind of capitalism.
According to a July 2020 study, authored by Pierre Azoulay and others, immigrants are 80% more likely to be entrepreneurs than natives in the US.
Research by Emilio Castilla shows that if you want to move an organization away from biased practices, transparency and accountability are key.
Andrew Lo says that what the government did this spring was to “put the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma.”
Work by Acemoglu and Johnson has found a further element of randomness which may explain contemporary patterns of wealth and poverty.
...the researchers estimate that 1 percent of cases have been fatal...roughly 10 times the fatality rate of the seasonal flu.
the impact of certain interventions on fruit and vegetable consumption is not well established.