Topic: Paul Romer
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Change Agent Honduras envisions building a Caribbean 'Hong Kong'
A poor Central American country, Honduras, is pondering creating a new semi-independent 'charter city' that would play by different rules and become an engine for economic growth.
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Computers as furnaces?
Some ecological economists are proposing putting large, heat-generating supercomputers, which normally require cooling, into residential basements as heating sources. Is this a clever new way to recycle energy, or too far-fetched to work?
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A modest proposal to balance California's budget
California's financial straits need radical solutions. How about these?
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In defense of the modern research university
Research universities aren't perfect, but they do have a role to play. They should start by reallocating their best resources, their faculty, to serve the undergraduates instead of the graduates.
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Are economists good at business?
Does academic study of economics lend one an acute business sense?
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