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Would you please lower your IQ for me, just a bit? |
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Of Mice and Men
Being good at what you do gives you a pretty warm glow. Especially if everyone notices. But there may be an underside to it. As a new CESifo Working Paper shows, the pleasures derived from excelling can exact a moral price. Paid by others, usually. Mice, in this case.
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| The Original Sinn |
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Make room for me too |
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Immigration into the Welfare State
Free migration. Inclusion principle. Welfare state. Pick any two. That, in essence, is the conumdrum faced by the EU—and not only in the face of the current massive inrush of refugees. If every immigrant gains immediate access to the host country's welfare benefits, the welfare state will eventually collapse. Something has to give, warns Hans-Werner Sinn.
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What 40 years does to you |
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What Happened to You, America?
Not quite what it used to be. Its global standing wobbling, its once unassailable technological advantage shrivelling, its economic might eroding, its undying love for guns fuelled by... mass shootings? And its politics swerving between the dysfunctional and the downright embarrassing. What would the proverbial Martian think upon returning after, say, forty years? Given that Martians are hard to come by, we give it a try with a coma patient.
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Fare thee well, Hans-Werner Sinn
Just one among the wave of farewell events to mark Hans-Werner Sinn's impending retirement from the CESifo/Ifo presidency, but a big one. A good chunk of the economics profession's who's-who and heavyweight politicians congregated in Munich to sing the praises of Germany's most influential economist in decades. Royal treatment indeed.
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| The Chart |
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Where developed humans live |
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Human Development Index
Forget GDP, PPP or GNI. What counts in the end is HDI, the Human Development Index of a nation. That's what all the effort to raise economic performance is about. How do countries score in this index? The DICE database has an interactive chart showing how different countries have fared since 1980. Check it out.
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The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning
Good infrastructure is vital for economic and societal well-being, but it cannot reliably be provided by market forces alone. A new volume in the CESifo-MIT Press Seminar Series, edited by Arnold Picot, Massimo Florio, Nico Grove, and Johann Kranz, brings together experts from Europe, North and South America, and Asia to examine the complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructure.
Get the book.
Other Publications of Interest:
Economic Policy
CESifo Forum
CESifo DICE Report
CESifo World Economic Survey
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