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Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

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The Trouble with Abundance

Jeffrey Frankel

“Abundance” sounds appealing, but institutional competence and economic wisdom matter more than uplifting slogans.

Reckoning With Inequality

Jeffrey Frankel

When it comes to the rise in economic inequality since the 1970s in the United States and some other advanced economies, it doesn’t really matter