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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. But the ownership of financial assets is highly concentrated and the effect was to compound the existing trends of wealth and income inequality, with muted effects on demand.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

The other main contenders seemed to be Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, Stanford economics professor John Taylor, and of course Columbia Business School dean (and economics professor) Glenn Hubbard, whose students made an awesome viral video about his purported disappointment at being passed over.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.)