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AEA Member Survey on Professional Climate
November 12, 2018
View member announcement from November 12, 2018.
Recommendations for Further Reading
Housing inventories, the Kerner Commission Report, and plastic waste
November 9, 2018
Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives
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2018 China International Conference in Economics
November 8, 2018
The CICE will be held in Beijing from December 13 - 16, 2018.
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The heroin balloon
November 7, 2018
A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.
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A shock to civility
November 5, 2018
When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.
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Fragile innovation
November 2, 2018
This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.
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Paranormal stock activity
October 31, 2018
An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.
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How Democrats lost the South
October 29, 2018
The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.
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