Politics and Policy
Can Markets Respond to Climate Risk Without Government?
We asked Professor Todd Cort, an expert on sustainability finance, how the revocation of the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding would affect decisions about climate risk from investors, lenders, and companies.
How Does Immigration Affect Global Business?
Immigration can help economies become more dynamic and efficient, but inclusive policies often create political landmines. How are countries around the world handling the challenge?
What Do Small Businesses Need?
Small businesses create jobs, so how do we help them grow? Entrepreneur and investor Sean Greene ’90 points to better government policies and access to capital
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is Government the Key to Prosperity?
Yale’s Jacob Hacker argues that society needs both healthy markets and effective government.
How Should We Think about the Debt?
David Wessel talks about the complex task of helping policymakers and the public to take a balanced, long-term view of spending and the deficit.
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What's at Stake?
It’s in the nature of political campaigns to reduce complex issues to simple declarations—good or bad, for or against. We spoke with a number of Yale faculty to get the big picture on trade, jobs, healthcare, and other economic issues that have come up in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
