By way of preparing for teaching and making sense of current events, I spent today trying to synthesise the demand-side literature on democratic backsliding (see figure below). The starting point of most of this literature is simple: Do voters punish politicians who violate democratic norms, or do
Hoping events in Hungary might encourage renewed undergraduate interest in the continent's politics - for obvious reasons 😉
Lesenswert — insbesondere für all jene, deren Antwort auf fast alle Probleme der Ruf nach mehr Sozialausgaben ist und die zugleich ignorieren, dass der/die Medianwähler:inn immer älter wird und daher weniger von investiven Ausgaben profitiert.
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🆕 Economic reform in Ethiopia and the foundations of growth
For this wide ranging podcast, Kartik Akileswaran (Growth Teams) and I were joined by Mamo Mihretu who has worked across many of Ethiopia's recent economic reforms, including as the tenth governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
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New paper by Jakobsen:
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Super interesting food for thought!
"Financial Conditions and Green R&D" by Luca Fornaro, Veronica Guerrieri, Will Hotten, and Lucrezia Reichlin.
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Highly relevant!
"Foreign Political Risk and Technological Change" by Joel P. Flynn, Antoine Levy, Jacob Moscona, and Mai Wo.
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‘Willingness to pay in attention is really different than willingness to pay in dollars.’ Cool research covered by @joshuabenton.com of @niemanlab.org on the difference between clickbait and substance in converting readers to newspaper subscribers.
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
I'd argue that pushing for degrowth will likely have corrosive effects on broad public suppport for stringent climate policy. Given that degrowth is essentially one big device for turning ever more policy domains into zero- or even negative-sum games, the room for Pareto-improving policies shrinks
What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?
The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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