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June 3, 2019
Stiglitz – “Neoliberalism must be pronounced dead and buried. Where next?”
What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.
June 3, 2019
Mathieu Karim Sabbagh, Named Editor-In-Chief of Columbia Economic Review (CER)
New York, NY – Mathieu Karim Sabbagh is the new editor-in-chief of the Columbia Economics Review (CER), a journal led, organized, and operated by undergraduate students at Columbia University across multiple disciplines. Columbia Economic Review (CER) is the oldest undergraduate economics journal in the United States. It is led by a dedicated team of undergraduates […]
May 28, 2019
Stiglitz – “Democracy at Risk”
Democracy is, of course, about more than having elections once every four years. It’s about systems of governance that give voice to everyone and put no one above the law. It’s also about the protection of basic human rights, including those of ethnic and racial minorities. But America has flipped around traditional concerns about the […]
May 14, 2019
Weinstein – “Trump’s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says”
President Trump’s chief economic adviser said on Sunday that American consumers would bear some pain from the escalating trade war with China, contradicting Mr. Trump’s claim that his tariffs are a multibillion-dollar, mostly one-way payment by China to the American Treasury.
