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Thirty / Revisiting Barriers, Economics Rules, and Social Security
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Aug 6, 2021
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Shereein Saraf
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Thirty / Revisiting Barriers, Economics Rules, and Social Security
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June 2021
Twenty-Nine / Cooperatives, Conflicts, and Human Needs
This week's article explores the intersection of commons and cooperatives in economics and society.
Jun 4, 2021
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Shereein Saraf
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Twenty-Nine / Cooperatives, Conflicts, and Human Needs
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May 2021
Twenty-Eight / Microfinance, Rethinking Economics, and Who is an Entrepreneur?
In this edition, read a feature on lessons from microfinance experiments in developing countries.
May 28, 2021
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Twenty-Eight / Microfinance, Rethinking Economics, and Who is an Entrepreneur?
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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…
May 14, 2021
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Twenty-Seven / Vaccine Passports, Peer Effects, and The Jab
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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.
May 7, 2021
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Twenty-Six / Modern Monetary Theory, Deficit Myth, and the Role of Taxation
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April 2021
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…
Apr 30, 2021
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Shereein Saraf
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Twenty-Five / Missing Women and Animal Farm
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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…
Apr 23, 2021
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Twenty-Four / Missing Middle Housing and Naked Economics
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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…
Apr 9, 2021
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Twenty-Three / How We Value Things, and What Would the Great Economists Do?
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Twenty-Two / The Missing Middle and Introducing Book Notes
This edition covers the phenomenon of the missing middle within the manufacturing sector in developing economies.
Apr 2, 2021
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Shereein Saraf
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March 2021
Twenty-One / Finding Free Market Solutions, Vaccine Rumors that Don't Go Away
In this edition, read about the criticisms of free-market solutions in the weekly article.
Mar 19, 2021
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Twenty-One / Finding Free Market Solutions, Vaccine Rumors that Don't Go Away
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Twenty / Monopsony in the Labor Market, and a Decline in Women's Employment
In this edition, read an explainer on the labor demand and supply in a monopsonistic labor market. Then, a report on gendered impacts on unemployment…
Mar 12, 2021
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Twenty / Monopsony in the Labor Market, and a Decline in Women's Employment
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Nineteen / Life Expectancy, Inequality, and Post-Pandemic Demographic Shift
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Mar 5, 2021
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Nineteen / Life Expectancy, Inequality, and Post-Pandemic Demographic Shift
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