With the United States in retreat under the banner of “America First,” outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says ...

Mark Shepard, a Harvard Kennedy School expert, looks at the crossroads facing the American health insurance system, a patched ...

November 2021, Interview: "TIE Founder and Editor David Smick interviews Larry Summers, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, top Obama economic adviser, and Harvard president. Summers’ recent ...

May 2019, Paper, "Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. In our newly-published book, we divide all platforms into two types: Innovation platforms enable ...

October 12, 2021, Paper: "Economic inequality affects not only how individuals judge and behave in their own lives, but also how those individuals’ judge and behave toward others – both people and ...

January 2020, Paper, "The introductory economics course, often called Econ 101, is where most economists get their start and where many students receive their only exposure to the field. This essay ...

September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...

June 15, 2021, Video: "Rebecca Henderson teaches at the Harvard Business School, but she’s a vocal critic of “business as usual.” In fact, her scholarly research focuses on how we need to change ...

August 2020, Paper: "China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even before the Covid-19 shock, a decades-long housing boom had ...

October 24, 2020, Opinion: "Economists broadly agree that placing a price on carbon, whether through a cap-and-trade program or a tax, is a key element of an economically efficient suite of policies ...

December 15, 2019, Paper, "We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find considerable heterogeneity ...

October 29, 2020, Audio: "Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems are the policies causing and can ...