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Chris Barrett, IAD

Chris Barrett, professor of applied economics and policy, says, “We shouldn’t waste a crisis. Ten years from now, we will look back and see that the...

Robert H. Frank, Einaudi

“It’s simple human nature—you want to follow the rules, but if you see other people breaking them and not getting punished, you stop too,” says Robert...

Christine Balance, SEAP

Christine Bacareza Balance, associate professor of Asian American studies, says that Asian women have been fetishized in American culture and provides...

Robert Hockett, CRADLE

In this piece debunking a widely-shared meme taking several facts about the Titanic out of context to claim the ship’s sinking was deliberate, Robert...

Steve Osofsky, IAD

In this NYT opinion piece, author Thomas L. Friedman writes how Steve Osofsky "summarized how the health of wildlife, the health of ecosystems and our...

Sital Kalantry, South Asia Program

“What we learn from experience today is that a lot of surrogates are white and tend to be lower middle class,” says Sital Kalantry, clinical professor...

Eswar Prasad, SAP

“Squeezing P2P lenders and the shadow banking sector does constrain lending to the private sector,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and...

Kaushik Basu, SAP

This opinion piece references an opinion piece written by Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, and a colleague about the new farm laws in India. 

Garrick Blalock, SEAP

Garrick Blalock, associate professor of applied economics and policy, co-writes this opinion piece about how it is statistically safer to fly in a...

Barry Strauss, PACS

Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics, says, “There’s a lot of fake news about Caligula… But we can’t trust the myths.”