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Entrepreneurship Around the World: An MIT Course
By Simon Johnson “Entrepreneurship Without Borders” is an MIT Sloan class, primarily designed for MBA students. The course looks at economic growth, financial crises, and the distribution of income...
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Where are the European Entrepreneurs?
By Simon Johnson This post is based on class #2 in my MIT Sloan course, Entrepreneurship Without Borders. An edited version appeared this morning on the NYT.com’s Economix blog. Europe today is...
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Thinking About Doing Business
By Simon Johnson In class #1 of Entrepreneurship without Borders (at MIT Sloan) we discussed attitudes towards starting a new business. In many countries, people want to become entrepreneurs, but they...
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Entrepreneurial Endeavor
By Simon Johnson Below is a summary of points from Class #4 of Entrepreneurship without Borders, a course at MIT Sloan. Use this link to look at earlier sessions. The conventional view about...
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Starting With Chile
By Simon Johnson This is a summary of class #5 in Entrepreneurship without Borders, a course at MIT Sloan. For links to the course syllabus and summaries of earlier sessions, see this post. Chile has...
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Economic Statecraft, Women, and the Federal Reserve
By Simon Johnson. This post draws on issues discussed in class #6 of Entrepreneurship without Borders, a course at MIT Sloan. The syllabus and other materials are available here. The US has a long...
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Fiscal Madness And Entrepreneurship
By Simon Johnson. This post draws on points discussed in class #7 of Entrepreneurship without Borders, a course at MIT Sloan. More details on the course are here. With the US government in partial...
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Preventing Civil War in South Sudan
By Simon Johnson. This post comprises the first two paragraphs of a column that appeared on the NYT.com’s Economix blog on Thursday, December 26, 2013. To read the full post, click here. The news...
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Ukrainian Chess
By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev on Tuesday. The Obama administration is feeling real pressure from across the political spectrum to “do something”,...
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Stopping Russia
By Simon Johnson The rhetoric of confrontation with Russia seems to be escalating, including with the remarkable suggestion – from Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee – that...
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The Chinese Boom-Bust Cycle
By Simon Johnson Should we fear some sort of financial crash in China, along the lines of what we saw in 2008 in the US or after 2010 in the euro area? Given the rate of growth in credit and the...
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Perhaps The Most Boring Important Topic In Economics
By Simon Johnson International economic policy making is a contender for the title of “most boring important topic” in economics. And within the field there is nothing quite as dull as the...
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Citigroup CEO Named To “Key Administration Post”
By Simon Johnson Just a few short days ago, it looked like Citigroup was on the ropes. The company’s proposal for redistributing capital back to shareholders was rejected by the Board of Governors of...
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The Too Big To Fail Subsidy Debate Is Over
By Simon Johnson No doubt there is still a lot of shouting to come, but this week a team at the International Monetary Fund completely nailed the issue of whether large global banks receive an implicit...
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An Elizabeth Warren for New York
By Simon Johnson These days, almost everyone likes to complain about institutional corruption – and various forms of intellectual capture of government orchestrated by big corporate interests. But very...
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A Conference On Finance For Everyone Else
By Simon Johnson It is hard to move around in Washington these days without bumping into a conference on the future of finance. But most of these are either closed to the public, or run on behalf of...
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Antonio Weiss Is Not Qualified To Be Under Secretary For Domestic Finance
By Simon Johnson Antonio Weiss has been nominated by President Obama to become the next Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Mr. Weiss’s supporters argue that he...
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Don’t Repeal Swaps Push-Out Requirements (Section 716 of Dodd-Frank)
By Simon Johnson Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act requires that some derivative transactions be “pushed-out” from those part of banks that have deposit insurance (run by the Federal...
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Citigroup Will Be Broken Up
By Simon Johnson Citigroup is a very large bank that has amassed a huge amount of political power. Its current and former executives consistently push laws and regulations in the direction of allowing...
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Elizabeth Warren And The Independent Community Bankers of America Are Right:...
By Simon Johnson Antonio Weiss has been nominated to become Undersecretary for Domestic Finance at the Treasury Department. A growing number of people and organizations have expressed reservations...
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