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Samuelson is now included on a list of 227 Americans who are banned from entering Russian territory.

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What are the likely economic consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the responses by the international community? The IGM Forum at Chicago Booth invited its panel of leading European and US economists to express their views. As this column reports, an overwhelming majority of the experts think that the economic and financial sanctions that have been implemented to

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“Economic recovery requires solving the public health problem,” Yale economist Larry Samuelson said.

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Despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 6.1% in April -- representing 9.8 million people who say they are actively looking for work -- many employers are reporting that they can't find people to hire.

When I was in high school, my economics class read The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. The book is a passionate appeal to help those living in the worst poverty in the world. Sachs writes that we should not worry too much about the people in second-to-last place, such as the poorly paid workers in labor-intensive industries who were then the focus of considerable debate and activism on U.S. college campuses. Sweatshop workers, Sachs conceded, were on the bottom rung of the ladder. But subsist...