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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 9, 2008
Financial Markets
Read Rogoff and Reinhart
Let me second Martin Wolf. Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart’s recent paper is brilliant. They also have mastered the art of saying a lot in a little space. There is no excuse not to read it in full. Ro…
December 19, 2012
Fossil Fuels
Oil Boom... And Risk Management
A story on NPR yesterday morning, “The Downsides of Living in an Oil Boomtown,” had an interesting portrait of the economic effects of high oil prices and booming oil production on Williston, North D…
April 19, 2013
Immigration and Migration
Mexico’s Transformation, and My Own
In anticipation of my talk next Tuesday in Los Angeles, I wrote the following piece for Zocalo’s Public Square: As my plane touched down at Benito Juárez airport in early 1994, I didn’t know that it…
April 29, 2013
Europe
Fiscal Revisionism
How does the attack on the two academic’s work change the landscape for macro policy, if at all? The recent challenge to a key finding of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff’s This Time Is Different (R&R…
April 30, 2013
Fiscal Revisionism
Following the controversy sparked by errors found in Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff’s This Time is Different that has played a central role in supporting austerity policies in the …