Is Poverty Awareness at Its Peak?
Martin Ravallion of the World Bank traces poverty awareness over the last three centuries and finds we may be at a historical peak. Read More »
What Happens to All Those Super Bowl T-Shirts?: A Guest Post by Dean Karlan
The Pittsburgh Steelers played in this year’s Super Bowl, but did not win it. Which means that, sitting in a warehouse somewhere, are lots of preprinted “Pittsburgh Steelers 2011 Super Bowl Champion” t-shirts. Ever wonder what happens to them? Dean Karlan, a development economist at Yale, is here to explain in a guest post. Read More »
The Entrepreneur's Brain
How do great entrepreneurs think? That’s the question that Saras Sarasvathy set out to answer in a recent study. Read More »
Is It Time to Start Talking About the Future Again?
Economic trouble continues. In the U.S., where the Federal government has moved gradually at best to cut spending, the pain — especially at state and local levels — is still rolling in. (The U.K., meanwhile, went directly to austerity mode.) But there are green shoots to be seen, especially at the high end. Plastic surgery, for instance, is on the rise. (Depending on your worldview, you might consider this the end of the world rather than the start of a recovery, but still …) Read More »
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. If you haven’t seen it yet, the movie features Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and was made by a dream team of documentary directors. Paste Magazine named it one of the 