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The New War Against Woke Capitalism
As the culture war wages on in American politics, conservatives have found a new target in the field of economics. Socially-responsible...
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Mar 25, 20235 min read
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The Future of Labor in Postindustrial America: An Interview with Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant is an historian who studies the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism and a professor at the...
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Apr 22, 20219 min read
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The Robin Hoods of Reddit
Gamestop is a dying brick and mortar video game retailer that hasn’t reported a profit since January 2020. Over the course of a week, its...
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Mar 20, 20215 min read
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Inside the Land of Opportunity (Zones)
The median wealth of a white family is $171,000. Among Black families, it’s just $17,600, and the gap between those two numbers has more...
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Oct 30, 20195 min read
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A New First Author? China’s Science and Health Diplomacy
Since the Cold War, global health and science has been dominated by the United States. In 2017, it spent $10.4 billion on global health,...
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Jun 24, 20186 min read
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Chinese Capital Comes to the Middle East
The Middle East has been a key strategic area for centuries, with the Russian, British, Portuguese, French and Ottoman Empires all...
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Apr 6, 20187 min read
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Value Added Taxes: The Bold Change America Needs?
The great curse of being a US federal budget-watcher is that it is nearly impossible to overstate the severity of the path the country is...
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Mar 12, 20178 min read
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Midnight Train to Addis Ababa
On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t,...
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May 2, 201612 min read
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BPR Interviews: Thomas Tisch
Thomas Tisch ’76 is the Chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University and a partner at Four Partners, a private investment firm in...
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May 5, 20158 min read
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The Art Market and Its Discontents
I’d wager that a considerable number of the general population would describe most modern art as esoteric, derivative, annoying,...
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Mar 2, 20146 min read
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