Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. First, congratulations to some fantastic economists: Amy Finkelstein on her election to the National Academy of Sciences Pam Jakiela on her appointment as a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development Seema Jayachandran on becoming an editor of AEJ: Applied Economics Jessica Goldberg on becoming Associate Prof at the University of Maryland What a great week for the field (and sorry to the many I’ve probably missed). Mary...
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Director of Research Jan Kregel is one of the editors and contributors for a new collection of essays devoted to the work of Alessandro Roncaglia: Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia is a collection of essays that pays tribute to Alessandro Roncaglia whose research is based on Schumpeter’s dictum that good economics must encompass history, economic theory and statistics, and therefore does not generally take the form of elegant formal models that are...
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