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The labor-market conditions that will generate convergence in pay between genders – the technological and institutional changes that reduce the cost of temporal flexibility – will make life better for almost everybody.
Claudia Goldin • How to Achieve Gender Equality
Last year, we conducted the first rigorous analysis of the millions of Americans who produce
Siddhartha Aneja • Taking Root: The Growth of America's New Creative Economy
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right. Predic... See more
Byrne Hobart • How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?
Geography and scarcity handicapped above-average performers and protected the average ones.
Dror Poleg • Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
“cliometrics” or economic history.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
One of the limiting and disciplining factors in prior eras had been the lack of consumer credit.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Bergstrom (2022) finds that economic growth, as measured by the increase in national gross domestic product (GDP) per person, explains 90 per cent of the historical variation in poverty.
Paddy Carter • When growth does – and does not – reduce poverty
Historically, for instance, there has been a reasonably strong correlation between GDP growth and job growth. Economists refer to this as Okun’s law. During the Long Boom of 1947 through 1999, the rate of job growth40 had normally been about half the rate of GDP growth, so if GDP increased by 4…
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