Xavier Jaravel on Democratizing Innovation to Spur Growth
Never underestimate the value of a good idea. Ideas are the starting point for innovation; few things fuel economic growth more than innovation. However, most of today's innovators emerge from a narro...
1 Apr 202515min
Amory Gethin Measures the Economic Value of Education
Economists have long surmised that people's knowledge and skills contribute significantly to economic development, but to what degree can access to an education change lives? Amory Gethin has compiled...
20 Mars 202514min
Karthik Sastry on Animal Spirits and the Economy
While we like to think our financial decisions are based on logic, the truth is, they are largely driven by emotion. So when John Maynard Keynes looked for methods to measure economic fluctuations, an...
12 Mars 202521min
Oren Cass on the Invisible Hand
Modern economics was built on ideas spelled out by Adam Smith in his 18th-century The Wealth of Nations. But while he used the term only once in that economic treatise, Smith is most remembered for "t...
3 Mars 202523min
Driving Change: Rumana Huque on the Real Costs of Bangladesh's Tobacco Dependency
Driving Change: Women-Led Development Economics from the Ground Up The International Economic Association's Women in Leadership in Economics Initiative (IEA-WE) connects women economists worldwide and...
28 Feb 202518min
Sanjeev Gupta on Health Financing
The pandemic was a brutal reminder of how crucial public health systems are, yet health budgets in many countries are still underfunded. Developing economies generally do not allocate sufficient domes...
25 Feb 202513min
Simon Johnson on Technology, Institutions and Prosperity
Countries with better institutions are more prosperous. A truism perhaps, but then why are they so hard to build and sustain? That is the question that Simon Johnson has sought to explain since the fa...
14 Feb 202526min
Elizabeth Johnson on Fixing Sao Paolo's Housing Deficit
As urbanization continues to grow worldwide, affordable housing is a rare commodity in many cities. Sao Paolo, South America's biggest city, has gained over 2 million new residents in the past decade...
19 Dec 202416min
