Industrial policies have been with us for a long time, but often they have been carried out surreptitiously and without clear motivation.…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation…
150 years after the birth of William Monroe Trotter, his legacy comes alive at Harvard.
BOOK DESCRIPTIONWhat are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet…
US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable…
Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John…