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Faculty Viewpoints

  • Why Trump’s Two-for-One Rule on Regulations Is No Quick Fix

    In a New York Times commentary, Yale’s Robert Shiller writes that the president's reflexively pro-business approach ignores the key role that regulations play in making our economy function.

  • Can the Graduation Approach Help to End Extreme Poverty? 

    The graduation approach to moving households out of extreme poverty and into sustainable livelihoods requires intensive up-front investments but seems to be cost effective in the long run.

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  • What Are the Consequences of India’s Currency Reform?

    In November, in an effort to fight corruption, India withdrew its two largest paper money denominations from circulation. Yale SOM’s Shyam Sunder looks at some possible effects of the change.

  • What Do We Learn from Our Networks?

    Yale's Nicholas A. Christakis on how ideas and behaviors spread through networks, and how leaders can shape networks to make their organizations happier and more effective.

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  • Donald Trump and the Sense of Power

    Yale's Robert J. Shiller writes that Donald Trump offered voters the promise of control over their own economic destinies. But it won't be easy for him to deliver.

  • How Could President Trump Affect the Global Economy?

    Global Network for Advanced Management experts from four continents foretell a period of uncertainty and adjustment, as global agreements are reevaluated and supply chains disrupted.

  • Restricting Employment Restrictions

    Research shows that limiting enforcement of non-compete agreements encourages entrepreneurship and economic growth.

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  • What’s the Real Jobs Picture?

    Yale SOM’s Lisa Kahn on the revolutionary shift in labor markets as automation and offshoring reshape work as we’ve known it.

    What’s the Real Jobs Picture?
  • Do We Benefit from Trade?

    Yale SOM economist Peter Schott on what the research shows about the effects of trade and how smart policy decisions can ease the impact on workers.

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  • What’s Behind a Rise in Ethnic Nationalism? Maybe the Economy

    Yale’s Robert J. Shiller considers how slow wage growth and economic inequality may provide the fuel for the rise in ethnic nationalism across many countries.