Economists - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar marketplace mantra - its symmetry... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

field of behavioral economics, which economists usually think of as a "new" field, was in fact rigorously studying the very factors that Smith, arguably the "father" of modern-day economics, had always thought were... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in the very same articles. Without... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

win some moral victories: the Economist magazine stopped publishing the Argentinian government’s numbers in favor of Cavallo’s stats, and, when a new government took over, it relied on Cavallo’s numbers as it built a new index from... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

01 Feb 2023
What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

at prescribed times or days of the week. According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who has studied remote work for years, totally remote workers constituted 15 percent of the US workforce as of early 2023, with another 30 percent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

journalists to convey the accurate condition of the financial system, and with priests, ministers, and rabbis, to urge calm. In essence, Morgan, Stillman, Baker, and Cortelyou worked to resolve the classic challenge of quelling financial crises, which View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

author Rick Teller explains many mysteries of economics, without needing any graphs, statistics, formulas, or models to do so. Teller answers the big questions: Is macroeconomics even a science? Why have leading economists been given so... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

for many years, warns that R&D and product development capabilities will be lost along with the loss of such jobs. While examining the closing gap between developed and developing economies, Nobel Prize economist Michael Spence has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

Tirole, an economist at the University of Toulouse and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In their new working paper, "The Simple Economics of Open Source," Lerner and Tirole make the case that an idealistic notion of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Young Economist Award from Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes. Sophus A. Reinert : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Meg Rithmire... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

the single most important public good: defense of national boundaries from external attacks.” Quantifying racism’s toll Economists have looked more frequently at racism’s destructive influence on the US economy in recent years, yet few... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

supportive of me." The importance of mentorship was impressed upon Modigliani at an early age. "I've always been around people who care about ideas. Everyone is a teacher in my family, except for me." That includes her grandfather, Franco Modigliani, a Nobel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

2013
Working Paper

International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness

Forum Started 18 Nov 2014 What Employers Must Do To Find Workers Forum started by Joseph B. Fuller Economists and commentators have long debated the existence of a “skills gap” and its purported causes. The Harvard Business School’s... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University of California at Los... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

Economics; Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; and Lightcast Chief Economist Bledi Taska. Crunching the ‘WHAM’ algorithm To parse where and how people are working remotely, the researchers teamed with... View Details