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Ted Truman | The International Exchange Rate Regime Part I: The End of the Bretton Woods Exchange Rate Regime

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the final collapse of the Bretton Woods Rate Regime. This study group will examine the March 1973 decision to move to floating exchange rates for the major ...
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Real-Time Economics: A New Platform to Track the Impacts of COVID-19 on People, Businesses, and Communities Using Private Sector Data - Raj Chetty & Nathaniel Hendren

May 2020, Paper, "We build a new, publicly available economic tracker that measures economic activity at a highfrequency, granular level. Using anonymized data from several large businesses – credit ...
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

“You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our ...
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The Teddy Bear Effect

Most Fortune 500 CEOs—roughly 95 percent of them, in fact—are white men. Line up headshots of these leaders and plenty of pronounced chins, square jaws, salt-and-pepper hair, and other physical ...
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

“Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories ...
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Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots army. Unlike many ...
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Conscience of a Black Conservative: The 1964 Election and the Rise of the National Negro Republican Assembly

n the immediate aftermath of the election of 1964, no group was more visibly alienated by the candidacy of Barry Goldwater than the black electorate. Abandoning the Republican Party en masse, black ...
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Chelsea Eats Guaranteed Income Pilot Program

Chelsea, Massachusetts, a city of 40,000 people just north of Boston, is among the places in the country hardest hit by COVID-19, both from a health and an economic perspective. In April 2020, local ...
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The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations – Robert Livingston

February 2021, Book: "How can I become part of the solution? In the wake of the social unrest of 2020 and growing calls for racial justice, many business leaders and ordinary citizens are asking that ...
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Public sector fellowship programs are key to getting young people into government. When these programs are eroded, talented workers go elsewhere.

Q: What impact have public sector fellowship programs—like the PMF—had on pathways into government service? Our study tracks the career trajectories of over 2,000 fellows and finalists from four ...
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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

“The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem ...
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Is The AI Bubble Bursting? Lessons From The Dot-Com Era

August 21, 2025, Opinion: "One should be just as cautious about predicting the imminent burst of an AI bubble as skeptical of the exaggerated hype currently surrounding artificial intelligence. There ...