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Libertarianism vs. Meritocracy

An op-ed by Thomas Mulligan, faculty fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics: “The American Dream is a meritocratic ideal. Our…

September 21, 2017

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Twelve New Faculty Join Georgetown McDonough

This year Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business welcomed four new tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as eight visiting faculty members,…

September 20, 2017

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Heavy Debt Crushed Owners of Toys ‘R’ Us

“The 00 million a year in debt service was really constrictive as they were trying to compete,” said Katherine Waldock, a finance professor at Georgetown University’s…

September 20, 2017

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Volokh Conspiracy Symposium on the “Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism”

I am pleased to announce that this week, the Volokh Conspiracy blog will host a symposium featuring posts by many of the contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism …

September 18, 2017

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The Silent Killer of Workplace Happiness, Productivity, and Health is a Lack of Basic Civility

An op-ed by Christine Porath, associate professor: “More than ever before, people are feeling disrespected at work. Employees, like some at Uber, feel they’re working in a…

September 17, 2017

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Jan Dhan Yojana: One Rupee Balance and the Dormancy-Duplication Problem

A separate 2017 working paper by Georgetown University professor Sumit Agarwal and his co-authors – which studied 1.5 million PMJDY accounts from August 2014 to May – also…

September 15, 2017

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The Silent Killer of Workplace Happiness, Productivity, and Health is a Lack of Basic Civility

An op-ed by Christine Porath, associate professor of management: “More than ever before, people are feeling disrespected at work. Employees, like some at Uber, feel they’re…

September 15, 2017

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The iPhone X Is An Engineering Marvel, But It’s Not A Reinvention Of The Smartphone

“You’re not going to see a lot of people dropping their [Samsung] Galaxy phones to switch to this,” says Ronald Goodstein, a professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of…

September 14, 2017

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Budget for Redevelopment of Downtown Dallas’ Statler Hotel Artificially Inflated, Suit Alleges

Matthew Cypher, director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University, said the lease rates negotiated by The News — starting at 1 per square foot,…

September 14, 2017

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Don’t End NAFTA. Canada Needs Your Bodily Fluids

An op-ed by Peter Jaworski, assistant teaching professor: “‘I want tariffs,’ President Trump was recently quoted as having said. He also said, off the cuff, he would ‘end…

September 13, 2017