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  • Melissa Kearney, Marriage and the Family

    November 4, 2024

    Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, the Tuck School of Business, and the Political Economy Project Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, as well as Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (where she is former director of the Hamilton Project), an NBER research associate, and affiliate of MIT's Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

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  • A Conversation With Larry Summers

    October 21, 2024

    A wide-ranging conversation with Lawrence H. Summers, former Treasury Secretary of the United States and former President of Harvard University. Summers discussed the economic challenges facing U.S. policymakers, including the growing fiscal deficit, the geopolitical rivalry with China, the coming disruption caused by AI, the recent debate about intellectual diversity in the academy, and more. The conversation was moderated by Douglas Irwin, John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Co-Director of Political Economy Project.

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  • Is the American Dream Still Alive?

    October 14, 2024

    Michael Strain (American Enterprise Institute) and David Leonhardt (New York Times) drew on their recent books—The American Dream is Not Dead: But Populism Could Kill It (2020), and Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream (2023), respectively—to debate one of the pressing issues of our time: whither the American Dream?

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  • Meir Kohn, Is Finance Theft?

    September 26, 2024

    Finance doesn't produce anything. It has long been regarded with suspicion across global cultures. What, then, does it contribute to our economy? In this first of a special year-long series of six lectures, Prof. Meir Kohn explained.

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