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Office Hours: Evaluating the True Impact of Seemingly Good Acts

Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor, explores the ethical complexities of doing good in Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effectiveโ€ฆ

February 26, 2025

In the News

The Fed is in No Hurry to Keep Cutting Towards Neutral, says Paul McCulley

Paul McCulley, former PIMCO chief economist and adjunct professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, joins CNBC's "The Exchange" to discuss outlooks on the economy,โ€ฆ

January 28, 2025

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How D.C. Regulators Made 2024 the Year That Big Hollywood Deals Didnโ€™t Happen

โ€œThis is a regime that was ideologically motivated to say big business is inherently suspect and that large companies present risks economically, politically and socially,โ€โ€ฆ

January 9, 2025

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Metaโ€™s Fact-Checking Overhaul Widens Global Rift on Disinformation

โ€œThereโ€™s clearly fragmentation in the digital economy that is a result of these differing regulatory approaches,โ€ said Stephen Weymouth, Provost's Distinguished Associateโ€ฆ

January 9, 2025

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Pro Take: Remote Workโ€™s Persistence Helps Keep Housing Prices High Outside Big Cities

โ€œIn smaller cities, the willingness for people to pay more to be closer to the city center has returned to prepandemic levels,โ€ said Ferdinando Monte, associate professor ofโ€ฆ

January 6, 2025

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AI Politics and Big Tech Policy

Stephen Weymouth, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor and Dewey Awad Fellow, joined Fox 5 to discuss politics and.โ€ฆ

January 6, 2025

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Hawkish Fed Rhetoric Will Make Markets โ€˜Do the Tightening,โ€™ Says Georgetownโ€™s McCulley

Paul McCulley, former chief economist at Pimco and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, joins CNBC's The Exchange to discuss how the Fed shouldโ€ฆ

December 18, 2024

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Economists Warn of Rising Prices After Trump Threatens to Impose Tariffs on Neighbors

"The mere threat of tariffs affects consumer economic decisions. Some importers may stockpile to avoid potential tariffs, while others will postpone import-related investmentsโ€ฆ

December 12, 2024

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2024 Best Undergraduate Professors: Jason Brennan, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University's McDonough School of.โ€ฆ

December 3, 2024

Research and Insights

Office Hours: From Click to Boom Examines a Digital Path to Development

Over the course of two decades, China built from scratch a $2-trillion-annual-sale e-commerce market, with 800 million users, 70 million jobs, and nearly 50% of global onlineโ€ฆ

November 21, 2024