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01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

and wages low, US companies won’t be able to raise prices and wages, so inflation will be limited. What’s the Fed’s view on this issue? —Gordon E. Olson (MBA 1975) I think you see a mixture of views among Fed policymakers, but I know that the Boston Fed has studied the... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett

price. Included is a summary of US newspapers' diminished circulation and advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2023
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Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987

By: Sabine Pitteloud

This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,... View Details

Keywords: Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Neo-Liberalism; Neocorporatism; Coordination; Economic Policy; Business and Government Relations; Labor Unions; Economics; Policy; Europe

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05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We depend upon them far more than... View Details

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

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US Immigration Changes Are Finally Coming, But Not the Right Ones | Working Knowledge

here before Since 2020, immigration has been key to sustaining the recovery of the US economy, filling vacancies in a tight labor market, and keeping inflation under control. While labor markets have... View Details

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

unemployment situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion people unemployed, according to the United Nations International Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” observes Bhargava. “Otherwise,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

encouraging labor market mobility. “Setting the table in terms of creating an environment that is attractive to entrepreneurship is one of the most important things that government can do,” he says—and differences in incentives and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard

The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since World War II. But this belated... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance