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Danielle Allen: Delivering on the promise of democracy
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard, believes our greatest challenge is to help rethink ...
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HKS health expert says next US administration will need holistic solutions to face multiple epidemics
The United States faces more widespread health problems than other developed countries, and they are not distributed evenly ...
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Roya Talibova: Exploring holistic responses to political violence
Roya Talibova, Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy, researches political violence and its effects on the political economy. With violence becoming more common in politics today ...
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Join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for our new “Carr in Conversation” series. This series will examine human rights issues both at home and abroad, bringing in a wide range of experts to ...
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Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates - Matthew Stephenson
September 2020, Paper: "Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that currently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their ...
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Government and Economics: An Emerging Field of Study - Eric Maskin
June 2021, Paper: "In this paper, we discuss the field of government and economics, an emerging body of work that aims to better understand government’s role, incentives and behavior in a modern ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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Constitution May Block Progressives on Wealth Tax
April 23, 2020, Opinion, "Debates about the idea of a wealth tax are suddenly sounding a lot less hypothetical. With massive expenditures related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. needs to find ways ...
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Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of The Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings
November 2019, Paper, "Despite the rising use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in financial markets, there is substantial disagreement across rating agencies regarding what ...
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Dan Levy on Data-Driven Policy Making, Machine Learning, and the Future of Higher Education
March 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Leadership Credential, ...
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Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make their Networks more Resilient. Here's How - Willy Shih
September-October 2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms everywhere. Coupled with a rise in economic nationalism, ...