Events

An expansive and ever-changing tariff policy regime has shaped the U.S. economy for more than a year, increasing costs and causing uncertainty for businesses, consumers, and policymakers alike. The recent Supreme Court decision barring tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is…

Around the world, voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the state of capitalism. In the United States and other rich democracies, economic policy in recent decades has produced more economic inequality, rising costs of essential goods and services such as housing, health care, and child care, gr…

Daron Acemoglu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented his views on how economic and political institutions shape technology’s role in work, as well as insights from his forthcoming book with co-author Simon Johnson, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and P…

This webinar delved into the data available at the Global Repository of Income Dynamics, a research project that assembles comparable cross-country statistics on income inequality and other income dynamics. Millions of estimates have already been released by the team, which is directed by Fatih Guve…

Lenore Palladino, assistant professor of economics and public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, presented on the relationship between shareholder primacy and the U.S. labor market, as well as on the current landscape of research and debate on concentrated corporate power and financi…

This event featured Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a leading scholar on how sexual orientation and gender identity shape economic outcomes. Badgett presented an overview of her recent work in LGBTQ+ economics and data collection, as well as the mos…