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Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.
Sanjay G. Reddy, Arnab Acharya
Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.
Mike Konczal, Felicia Wong
With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers—and over 1.5 million copies sold per week—the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.
Ben Jackson
The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.
Marshall Steinbaum
Three new books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.
Archon Fung
Remembering Kenneth Arrow
Debra Satz
Smithian ideas about natural political laws and natural human reason thrived long beyond the Revolution.
Claude S. Fischer
A new book on economist Karl Polanyi.
Michael McCarthy
This updated piece was originally published by the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public
Martha C. Nussbaum
Lawrence Lessig walked across New Hampshire to put campaign finance reform back on the national agenda.
Andrew Mayersohn
The divestment movement’s moral clarity entails a risk if advocates shift from demonizing fossil fuels to demonizing the people who dig them up.
David Keith
Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that early childhood intervention can improve the economic and social mobility of children born into disadvantage. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs.
James J. Heckman
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