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Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart on Empowering Twitter’s Shareholders
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel laureate Oliver Hart explains why broadening our perspective on fiduciary duty beyond maximizing shareholder wealth could empower individual...
We Need More Respectful and Inclusive Experiments in Development Economics: A Proposal
After many years of field research in Uganda, three economists outline how to prevent a powerful research tool such as randomized controlled trials...
Indecent Proposals in Economics: The Moral Problem With Randomized Trial Experiments
The advent of field Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) has made it more acceptable for applied economists to collect data in developing countries. This raises...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: The Risk Of Reopening – a Reading List
Despite warnings from government and health officials, some states are choosing to begin reopening their economies this week by ending lockdown restrictions. In this...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Where Does the Money Come From? With Special Guest Eugene Fama
As Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales predicted in a previous episode, the government is running out of money and will ask Congress for additional...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode, Featuring Paul Krugman: A Reading List
On this episode, Kate and Luigi talk with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about his new book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the...
Who Benefits When State Governments Award Incentives to Politically-Connected Companies?
A new study finds that a company is nearly four times more likely to receive an economic incentive in a state where the company...
“Is the Market Actually Efficient? No, It Is Only a Very Powerful Narrative”
A conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Robert Shiller on his new book, Narrative Economics: "Economists do not study narratives systematically, but they shape the...
Fighting Poverty With Field Experiments: the Nobel Laureates' Revolution
As a student, Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons decided to become an economist after a project in Morocco with Esther Duflo. The co-recipient...
Esther Duflo: How to Find the Right Questions
In this piece, originally published in 2011 by the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Esther Duflo, co-recipient of...
