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How Generous Unemployment Support Helps The Economy

The Horizons Tracker

Congress turned to a familiar policy tool to revive the US economy during the pandemic: extending jobless benefits. A recent study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business attempted to answer this question by analyzing how expanded unemployment insurance affects aggregate demand for goods and services in an economy.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? In other words, climate skeptics don’t just stymie progress on climate policy. The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research. and in developing nations.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Trade Policy.". He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. trade policy. Let's start with the first myth: that an open trade policy is the cause of manufacturing job losses. What do you make of his proposal?

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