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Economics of Disaster

Meet the man bringing power back to Puerto Rico

by Lizzie O'Leary
Dec 1, 2017
"It just is one of the most challenging missions that we've really faced."
Col. John Lloyd, who leads the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mission to restore power to Puerto Rico, stands in front of the strategy map highlighting key transmission lines. "It just is one of the most challenging missions that we've really faced,” he told us.
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Economics of Disaster

Puerto Rico's post storm economy, in context

by Eliza Mills
Dec 1, 2017
Economist Vicente Feliciano on the past, present and future of the island's economy.
Stores struggle to stay open without power in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Joanne Griffith/Marketplace
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What the economy of Artemis can tell us about life on Earth

by Phoebe Unterman
Nov 28, 2017
Sci-fi writer Andy Weir predicts the future of space travel using today's air travel data.
A view of Earth appears over the lunar horizon from Apollo 11 before astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. made their historic moon walk.
Photo by NASA/Newsmakers
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What China's party congress means for the average Joe

by Kai Ryssdal , Jennifer Pak and Shaheen Ainpour
Oct 18, 2017
A meeting of high-ranking officials in China signals the country's direction.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the opening session of the 19th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People today in Beijing.
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Where are all the women in economics?

by Marketplace Contributor
Oct 10, 2017
Only 15 percent of tenured faculty in economics are women — worse than in STEM fields. Why?
Clara Starrsjö is a second-year economics student at Cambridge University.
Kim Gittleson
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Richard Thaler wins Nobel for work in behavioral economics

by Marketplace Contributor
Oct 9, 2017
The Nobel committee said Thaler’s work shows how human traits affect individual decisions and market outcomes.
Nobel prize winner Richard Thaler.
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Muhammad Yunus: Wealth concentration "is a ticking time bomb"

by David Brancaccio
Sep 26, 2017
"Human beings are not born to work for somebody else. Human beings are basically entrepreneurs," economist Muhammad Yunus told us.
A person holds a 99 Percent button at the Occupy Wall Street protest September 17, 2012 on the one year anniversary of the movement in New York.
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Using stories to teach economics

by David Brancaccio
Sep 18, 2017
A new ebook wants to transform how you learn about the economy.
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MAGAnomics: The White House economy plan is not without its flaws

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 13, 2017
Making the American economy great again is not as easy as it seems.
Welcome to MAGAnomics
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What corporate bankruptcy can teach us about morality

by David Brancaccio
Jun 27, 2017
'The Wisdom of Finance' aims to discover the humanity at the heart of high finance.
Greek tragedies — like that of, say, Orestes — can teach us a lot about bankruptcy.
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