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The Labor Lens of Claudia Goldin – by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Research
May 2, 2025 by christianhartselle
Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics. She is best known for her research on women’s earnings and labor market participation since the 1800s and for why there is a gender pay gap. She finds that childless men and women earn about the same, but having children reduces women’s earnings because they mainly […]

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Elinor Ostrom in the Cul-de-Sac – by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Government
May 1, 2025 by christianhartselle
Elinor Ostrom, who taught at Indiana University, was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Her work focused on various mechanisms of self-governance of common resources. Ostrom documented how local communities in the developed and less developed world managed common resources like water, forests, and fisheries. As an economist, Ostrom focused on […]

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Politics can’t be about what’s just right or wrong – by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Politics
April 30, 2025 by christianhartselle
The late Nobel Prize winning economist James Buchanan wrote, “The economist’s stock in trade – his tools – lies in his ability to and proclivity to think about all questions in terms of alternatives. The truth judgment of the moralist, which says that something is either wholly right or wholly wrong, is foreign to him. […]

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Bernanke, other economists deserving of Nobel Prize – by Dr. Cecil Bohanon and Dr. John Horowitz
- Inflation
April 24, 2025 by christianhartselle
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Douglas Diamond, an economist at the University of Chicago, and Philip H. Dybvig, an economist at Washington University. The Wall Street Journal reported: “their work helped governments and central bankers navigate the global financial crisis and avoid an economic depression of […]

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