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The COVID-19 crisis had enormous and destructive consequences for our health, our economy, our education systems, and the quality of our social and family lives. Now, just imagine how much
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The COVID-19 crisis had enormous and destructive consequences for our health, our economy, our education systems, and the quality of our social and family lives. Now, just imagine how much
New policy-focused research examines COVID-19 societal impact Innovative Northwestern research projects funded by recent $1 million Peterson Foundation grant get underway July 22, 2021 | By Matt Golosinski Projects are based on the potential for action-oriented solutions to future pandemics. Northwestern University has announced the recipients of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund, an initiative launched in April to evaluate policies and actions during the current pandemic and to advance effective recommendations for the future.Â...
Opening Statements Of Nominees To The U.S. Department Of The Treasury For The Senate Committee On Finance Date 25/05/2021 On Tuesday, March 25, the Senate Committee on Finance will hold a hearing on the pending nominations of J. Nellie Liang to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury, Jonathan Davidson to be Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lily Lawrence Batchelder to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Benjamin Harris to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The openings statements of the nominees are below. Opening Stateme...
Dilemmas of great and good Mainstream economists cannot provide the answers needed to revive a system mired in stagnation. Michael Roberts reports on the annual gathering of the American Economic Association The conference of the American Economic Association was unusual this year, for obvious reasons. Instead of 13,000 academic and professional economists descending on an American city to present and discuss hundreds of submitted papers over a few days, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, ASSA 2021, as the conference was called, was virtual. Despite that, there were a host of papers presented ...