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  • November/December 1978
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What Comes First in Feeding the Hungry?

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Food; Poverty
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  • 1976
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More or Less Poverty? The Economic Effects of the MNE at Home and in the LDC's

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Economies and Regions
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  • 2023
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Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making

By: Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
BOOK ABSTRACT: Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
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Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

By: Shawn A. Cole

This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

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MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies

By: Malcolm P. Baker

This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details

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Multilateral Bankruptcy Rules

By: Jerry R. Green

A classic problem in economics is the selection of a bankruptcy rule with good normative properties.  The problem as usually specified is given by the “estate” E which is to be divided among the “claims” c= (c1,... View Details

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On the Political Economy of Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro
This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or... View Details
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Overview

By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

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Overview

By: Christina R. Wing
Multi-generational wealth creation through family businesses and family offices. Leadership throughout the chapters of your life. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Leadership; Succession Planning
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Reflection

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

Corporations as Critical Social Institutions

My current research examines the extent to which corporations are emerging as critical social institutions. Over the past century, and especially in recent decades, firms have taken on... View Details

Keywords: Reflection
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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
  • Forthcoming
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Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Taxation; Insurance; Welfare
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  • 2024
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The 10 Rules of Investing: Best Practices for Building Wealth and taking Care of Your Future Self

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Katie Reilly
Keywords: Personal Finance
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The Future of Market Capitalism

By: Joseph L. Bower
In 2009 we are aware of the fragile state of our market system.  But a careful examination of the long term prospects for the global economy reveal other problems that may destabilize the system that has created so much wealth in the period since the second world... View Details

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