Working on data on the institutions in the antiquity, Roland(2018) distinguishes them into two institutional clusters resulting in either...

The gender wage gap still exists in the US, but when ‘explained’ factors (years of experience, education level, hours worked) are...

The Kolliopoulos (2020) paper discusses the determinants of the conditions surrounding the first (2013), second (2014), and third (2016)...

In the Cem Çakmakl et al (2020) NBER working paper, the authors set forth a model outlining the macroeconomic effects of the Covid-19...

Economists sometimes neglect the discipline’s ethical dimensions by 1) ignoring the distributional impact of policy and growth and 2)...

Former American President Barack Obama declared inequality “the defining challenge of our time.” Meanwhile, levels of inequality around...

Inspired by their 2019 book Good Economics for Hard Times, I decided to cover here one of the academic papers that Abhijit Banerjee and...

Central Idea: Institutions (formal rules and informal constraints), Technology and Ideology together shape economic performance, by...

Electoral maps in the United States are re-drawn at a state level every ten years, based on a set of ambiguously defined criteria that...

Bonizzi's et al (2019) paper addresses and criticizes how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) scholars set forth their assumptions and policy...