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Twenty-Nine / Cooperatives, Conflicts, and Human Needs 
This week's article explores the intersection of commons and cooperatives in economics and society.
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Eight / Microfinance, Rethinking Economics, and Who is an Entrepreneur? 
In this edition, read a feature on lessons from microfinance experiments in developing countries.
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Seven / Vaccine Passports, Peer Effects, and The Jab
This week's article talks about the time relevance of vaccine passports, followed by book notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. Later, a podcast…
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Six / Modern Monetary Theory, Deficit Myth, and the Role of Taxation
This week's article covers the Modern Monetary Theory, a post-Keynesian heterodox school of thought.
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Five / Missing Women and Animal Farm
First, read this week's article on the evolution of Amartya Sen's idea of missing women. Next, notes on George Orwell's Animal Farm, an all-time…
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Four / Missing Middle Housing and Naked Economics
In this edition: the weekly article about building a Missing Middle Housing, Book Notes on information asymmetry and lemons among lawyers, and thinking…
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Shereein Saraf
Twenty-Three / How We Value Things, and What Would the Great Economists Do?
Two paradoxes – that of value and choice – in the weekly article followed by notes on the book – What Would Great Economist Do? and thinking about…
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Shereein Saraf
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