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Reflections as a Hong Konger
I have been in London for more than two years since immigrating from Hong Kong in 2021. This blog article …
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East Asia, the Comparative Method, and the Limits of State-Led Development
Bryan Cheang, using the examples of Singapore and Hong Kong, writes about the importance of contextual knowledge and comparative analysis when assessing national economic performance.
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Epistemological break in political economy
Pavel Kuchar and Erwin Dekker argue that economists should give up privileging one particular type of knowledge — scientific and general — over all other types of economic knowledge. An economics without the epistemological break has important contributions to make to public discussions about the economy, economic policy, and economics education.
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Money and the Rule of Law
Daniel J. Smith discusses his new book Money and the Rule of Law, where he and his co-authors argue for less discretion for monetary policymakers.
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Crises of the commons: Elinor Ostrom’s legacy of self-governance
Erik Nordman discusses his new book, which details the intellectual legacy of Elinor Ostrom and her contributions to the management of natural resources.
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Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy
Mikayla Novak discusses her new book, which analyses social movements from the lens of liberal political economy.
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Elinor Ostrom and the Contestable Nature of Goods
Economists like to classify goods as private or public. Using insights from Elinor Ostrom’s research, Veeshan Rayamajhee and Pablo Paniagua argue that we can’t make these classifications without looking at the context.
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Autumn Zoom Seminar Series
Please join us this autumn for our Zoom Seminar series featuring Ian Shapiro (Yale), Jeffrey Friedman (Berkeley), James C. Scott (Yale), Melani Cammett (Harvard), Cristina Bicchieri (Penn) and Barak Richman (Duke). Check out the full schedule here and be sure to register. All lectures will be recorded and shared afterward.
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John Myers: Land Use Regulation and the London Housing Crisis
What Elinor Ostrom Can Tell Us About Housing and Land Use Governance The UK and many other Western countries have …
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Simon Kaye: Why we must make room for self-governance in a post-pandemic UK
It is easy to reduce the experience of this pandemic to a story about top-level decision-making, interactions on the international stage, and the ballooning of state power. But to do so is to miss the other half of the story. For distancing and self-isolation policies to work, they have had to be enacted and reinforced at the scale of neighbourhoods – or even households.
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Otto Lehto: Universal Basic Income as a Crisis Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Could UBI be a partial solution to the financial problems introduced by the novel coronavirus? Otto Lehto argues that we should implement UBI as a permanent reform of the welfare system rather than as a temporary emergency measure with a sunset clause.
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Sophia Ostler: Governance in the Heart of Colombia’s Drug Trade
Sophia Ostler takes us into her fieldwork research on the governance of the Colombian drug trade, illuminating the role of extra-legal governance in supporting the trade, the importance of women in the coca-leaf economy, and the bountiful insights that qualitative research brings to economics.
