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Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler report on NYC’s right to counsel for eviction cases, noting many tenants ...
Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...
Reprint: R0711C Many executives are surprised when previously successful leadership approaches fail in new situations, but different contexts call for different kinds of responses. Before ...
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Tuesday: Hi all — We have had a bunch of folks take on ...
A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...
In this paper we discuss the increasingly important role behavioral economics plays in Canadian public policy. We first contextualize government policies that have incorporated insights from ...
In most cities, the taxi industry is highly regulated and utilizes technology developed in the 1940s. Ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, which use modern internet-based mobile technology to ...
Power clearly isn’t what it used to be. We see Goliaths being toppled by Davids all around us, from the networked drivers of Uber to the crowdfunded creatives of Kickstarter. But it’s ...
Adult vaccines can return up to 19 times their initial investment to society, when their significant benefits beyond the healthcare system are monetised.
Donald Trump has said he will only pick a new Federal Reserve chair who will cut US interest rates, as he called on the central bank to slash borrowing costs to 1 per cent. The president also ...
The ability to track neural activity as the brain develops in embryos is key to understanding how neurons self-assemble to form the vertebrate brain. In this ...
Digital surface models (DSMs) derived from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data have been increasingly integrated with high-resolution multispectral satellite/aerial imagery for urban land cover ...