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| Jason Furman | Willie Powell
October 7, 2021, Opinion: "The US labor markets continued to improve in September, but the improvement was much slower than the fast pace of recovery earlier in the summer and was a further slowdown from August. The employer survey, which is generally more reliable, showed that the US economy added 194,000 jobs in September, still slower than the 1,027,000 average pace in June and July and a further slowdown from an upwardly-revised gain of 366,…
| Philippe Le Corre
October 7, 2021, Opinion: "Despite the fallout over AUKUS, France does not intend to withdraw from the Indo-Pacific. The diplomatic crisis has given President Macron a chance to make his country’s voice heard on a major geostrategic issue. " Read Via Carnegie Europe
HKS MRCBG Fellow - Philippe La…
| Lawrence H. Summers
October 7, 2021, Opinion: "The banking industry is vigorously protesting the Biden administration’s nomination of Cornell University law professor Saule Omarova to be comptroller of the currency, arguing that she is not interested in the kind of cooperation that should exist between banks and the government. If the industry were interested in working with the government in good faith, I would be more sympathetic to its concerns about the…
| Kenneth Rogoff
October 6, 2021, Video: "T20 - Italy - Panel - Fair Trade and Investments (no excerpt)" Watch Via T20 - Italy on Youtube
Non-HKS Author Website - Kenneth Rogoff
| Ricardo Hausmann
October 6, 2021, Opinion: "Now that environment, social, and governance standards have gone mainstream among investors in the advanced economies, the question is what ESG criteria will mean for developing countries. A closer examination shows that such standards have little to offer export-dependent economies, and may even prove counterproductive."…
| David Cutler
October 4, 2021, Audio: "On this edition of Conversations, David Cutler talks with host Dan Skinner about “Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation(link is external).” Cutler is a professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the National Economic Council and has advised businesses and governments on health care."…
| Oliver Hart
October 4, 2021, Video: "A presentation from 2021–2022 Jeffrey S. and Margaret Mais Padnos Fellow Oliver Hart Oliver Hart is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 corecipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Hart’s research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the…
| Karen Dynan | Jeremy Stein
October 4, 2021, Video: "32nd Annual Conference on Macroeconomics…
| Stefanie Stantcheva
October 2021, Paper: "The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing gap between the income of the average and the median voter, should lead to increased demand for redistribution, as policymakers cater to the median voter’s preferences (Meltzer and…
| Daniel Schneider
September 2021, Paper: "The labor of workers in the retail and food service sector – employed at grocery stores, fast food and casual dining restaurants, in hardware and electronics, in retail and working in warehouses, delivery, and fulfillment – is now, in the COVID-19 pandemic, recognized as “essential.” Yet, these frontline workers have long contended with difficult jobs under precarious conditions. In this report, I take a close look at…