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Africa faces grave risks as COVID-19 emerges, says Berkeley economist Ted Miguel in an interview for Berkeley News. Read more
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To avoid a Great Depression, Congress must quickly design a more forceful response to the crisis, say Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in an Op-Ed for The New York Times. Read more
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Economics Professor Martha Olney contributed to a Berkeley News article on the impact of COVID-19 on graduating seniors. Read more
Now Is the Time to Inoculate Against the Economic Mutation of COVID-19, says Professor of Economics Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas in an article for Foreign Affairs. Read more
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An Economic-History Lesson for Dealing with the Coronavirus: New Yorker writer John Cassidy spoke with Berkeley Economics Professor Barry Eichengreen on how this crisis differs from previous ones in recent history. Read more
NPR's Planet Money discusses whether a payroll tax cut would work in the COVID-19 economy, with Berkeley Economics professor Alan Auerbach. Listen now