Political Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

financial crisis. That is true but irrelevant. You don't need a crystal ball to see that we have an unsustainable business model and no political process for change. What we need is simple—growth. We need the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ...... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

and took a plunge into the unknown. A relatively small number of largely older, uneducated voters decided that the younger generations of Britons who voted to remain should instead face the growing global competition on their own rather than as an integral part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

21 Sep 2015
News

Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future

Partnership (TPP) with the United States, Singapore, Australia, Chile, and seven other countries. “Strong political sensitivities over comprehensive tariff elimination—a TPP negotiating principle—made Japan’s participation extremely... View Details

08 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

the free market should be given greater room to run unfettered, while the government’s role in the economy should be diminished. Trimming taxes on high-income households, minimizing the estate tax, and substantially cutting corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

economies flourish and yet, people still pushed back, especially when it seems like the cultural gaps are too large to bridge. A recent study I published on the political effects of immigration in the early... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, this book encourages all to rebel against what’s comfortable so we can thrive. New Perspectives on the History of Political... View Details

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

“microdata” from firms’ transactions suggests that a significant portion of the imported Chinese goods added value to Vietnam’s economy through new investments that resulted in jobs and increased production. These products weren’t merely... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

in various ways in all countries. Still, we found that most people we talked to understood the differences between the system we find in most markets today and the state-owned economies that were more common in the last century. What did... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2006
News

Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China

While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

developing countries. His article, "Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization," appeared in the Review of International Political Economy in February 2006. Ann... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those questions are vital for economists, policymakers, and local governments to decide as new waves of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

few months ago, has since been openly considered by many. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. The crisis has already had a profound political impact, sweeping aside leaders in no fewer than five member countries of the... View Details