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The Development of Police in the U.S.: Suppressing and Stoking Racial and Class Conflicts (11/5/25)

Looking broadly across time and space, and tracing histories of policing in Britain and the United States, Julian Go will join us for the fifth session of our Criminal Law as a Tool of Authoritarian ...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece ...
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The Rise of Remote Work Evidence on Productivity and Preferences From Firm and Worker Surveys

October 24, 2024, Paper: "Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of ...
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Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect

Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises, especially for loser stocks, ...
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The Ghost Budget: How U.S. war spending went rogue, wasted billions, and how to fix it

April 1, 2024, Audio: "HKS Senior Lecturer Linda Bilmes, an expert on public finance who has studied post-9/11 war costs for the past 20 years, says their staggering $5 trillion price tag was enabled ...
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Transforming Domestic Work: Ai-jen Poo’s Vision for Collective Empowerment and Social Change

For more than 25 years, Ai-jen Poo has worked to transform the field of domestic work. As president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and executive director of Caring Across Generations, Poo’s ...
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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are ...
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Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our ...
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The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially important new technology, but its impact on the economy depends on the speed and intensity of adoption. This paper reports results from the ...
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Senior Fellows Program Details and Application Information

The Senior Fellows Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government brings together experienced professionals with over 20 years in government and business Fellows work on research ...
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Ghana: A Case Study of Sovereign Debt Restructuring under the G20 Common Framework

December 18, 2024, Paper: "Facing major fiscal and balance-of-payments headwinds, Ghana embarked on a comprehensive restructuring of its sovereign debt in December 2022.It was assessed that to return ...
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Hot Spots Policing and Crime Prevention: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Braga, Anthony A. "Hot Spots Policing and Crime Prevention: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials." Journal of Experimental Criminology 1.3 (September 2005): 317-342.