Engendering Pluralism: How Gender Diversity Can Transform Economics
How women economists expand orientations and perspectives that can transform economics into a pluralistic, critically engaged, and socially responsive discipline.
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Engendering Pluralism in Economics: Gendered Perspectives from an International Survey of Economists
How women economists expand orientations and perspectives that can transform economics into a pluralistic, critically engaged, and socially responsive discipline.
Labor Day 2025: The Great Crash (of the Economists)
Contrary to what many economic models suggest, salaries aren’t constantly recalibrated based on skills or technology. They follow the economy and politics—and common sense: hire when needed, promote from within, and slow hiring when budgets tighten.
Economists Warn: Trump’s Intel Move Looks Like Performance, Not Policy
Two economists who have studied Intel warn that Trump’s move to take a stake in the company amounts to flashy optics, incoherent strategy, and a creeping politicization of economic policy.
Intel, once dominant in semiconductors, has flailed amid manufacturing problems, leadership changes, and fierce global competition. And unfortunately, it matters because in a world where chips are the new oil, controlling them means controlling power -- economic, military, and geopolitical.
Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, and Casino Capitalism
The famed short-seller reminds us that technology might advance, but we’re still a pretty predictable bunch of apes.
The Fall of Intel
How America’s chip leader lost its edge.
Who Wins and Who Loses When AI Makes Decisions
What are the hidden risks and trade-offs in letting machines decide — and how can we protect fairness without stifling innovation?
Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange
Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven development in place.
Accounting for Ourselves: What Fedwire Tells Us About Fed Losses, Cost Recovery, and Risk
Without transparent accounting practices and proper risk management, the Federal Reserve’s current financial losses—unprecedented in scale—and the questionable accounting practices it uses to downplay their impact threaten public trust, economic stability, and the integrity of fiscal policy.
Is Fedwire Still a Subsidy That Fully Recovers Its Cost?
The Federal Reserve is experiencing something new in its history: sustained and sizable operating losses. These losses—currently running at more than $100 billion a year on an annualized basis—stem largely from the sharp rise in short-term interest rates, which has increased the interest the Fed pays on bank reserves while the income from its long-term securities portfolio remains comparatively low.
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