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This crisis provides a very green opportunity

21 May 2019
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Why That Astonishing Gift to Morehouse Students Really Is a Useful Economics Experiment

27 Feb 2012
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Economist: Clean Air Regs Cost U.S. $21 Billion A Year But Produce $100 Billion In Benefits

18 Sep 2006
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When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a mathematical... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 Feb 2014
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What Do People Have Against Retirement Income?

26 Mar 2020
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'Bloomberg Surveillance' Full Show

06 Mar 2018
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State health officials endorse Beth Israel-Lahey merger

30 Jul 2007
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Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

paper, he and fellow economists have found themselves handicapped by a problem just as real as any technological barrier or requirement of incentives and efficiency: the downright distaste that some people feel for particular... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?

Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra, Courtney Coile, and Corina Mommaerts; Health; Pharmaceutical

15 Jan 2011
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Revisiting the rights and responsibilities of business

28 Sep 2015
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Université Laval awards honorary doctorate to Michael E. Porter, father of modern competitive strategy

11 Sep 2014
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Who Really Benefits from Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Index? Depends How Long You Live

20 May 2021
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Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side

Amitabh Chandra

Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

02 Jun 2021
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One Way Companies Are Concealing Higher Prices: Smaller Packages

13 Jan 2017
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Higher Minimum Wage May Have Losers

July 2007 (Revised October 2007)
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Cintas y Lazos, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins

A recent Cuban immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Statements; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Retail Industry; Florida

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