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Economics Job Market Rumors is a website that's half a job information Wiki, where people post about what's going on inside economics departments, and half a di…
There's this fundamental question in economics that has proven really hard to answer: What's a good way to help people out of poverty? The old-school way was to…
There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a price on som…
4.5 million households in the U.S. have solar panels on their homes. Most of those customers are happy with it - their electricity bills have just about disappe…
In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went …
When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire — that’s one thing. When they can, and just don’t want to — that’s trickier. It used to be legal to forc…
Just about everyone in Argentina is an expert in inflation and whether they like it or not, economic flexibility. Can we learn from them? Over the years, we at …
Most leaders know they need to innovate, but many take a strong instinct and hold too tightly to an idea, rather than testing, experimenting, and playing to fin…
Most leaders are asking the same question about AI: Will it make their teams more productive—or slowly erode the very skills they're trying to build? In this sp…
In today’s increasingly decentralized workplaces, leaders often need to get things done without having direct authority over the people they depend on. So how c…
