Faculty Viewpoints

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Three major insurers have pulled out of the Affordable Care Act's healthcare exchanges, prompting concerns about the exchanges’ long-term sustainability. Yale’s Fiona Scott Morton and Howard Forman discuss the state of Obamacare and what it needs to thrive.