
The Individual Failings of Economics
Mar 31, 2021 argues that excessive focus on rational decision-making at the micro level is holding back the profession.
Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, is a professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Harvard Growth Lab.
Mar 31, 2021 argues that excessive focus on rational decision-making at the micro level is holding back the profession.
Mar 4, 2021 & warn that negotiations without sanctions, as some advocate, is a strategy that leads nowhere.
Feb 1, 2021 highlights the technological obstacles that often keep poorer economies poorer.
Dec 29, 2020 calls for economists to pay greater attention to capabilities, rather than focusing exclusively on incentives.
Dec 3, 2020 & explain the Democratic Party's disastrous 2020 election performance in the city, and how it can recover there.