Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
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Read more...Economists fetishize innovation. But do they appreciate the importance of cooperation in getting there?
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Read more...Why the meaning of the word freedom very much depends on your economic standing.
Read more...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking
Read more...Musing on why the level of crude propagandizing known as fake news has gotten worse.
Read more...The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...Why an MBA is not what it is cracked up to be.
Read more...Why whistleblowing is a recent development.
Read more...Redistribution through taxes and social transfers is not sufficient to curb the inequality in opportunity, which is mostly linked to the educational system and perpetuates economic and social situations from one generation to the next.
Read more...History shows that capitalism isn’t natural or normal, strengthening the belief that we can create something better.
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