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Sustainability Science: Towards a Synthesis
(2019-12)We review recent scholarship relevant to the pursuit of sustainable development. We find a compelling argument that the interactions of nature and society in the Anthropocene constitute a globally interconnected, complex ... -
Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and future innovation in Japan
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2022-03)March 2022. Harvard Kennedy School fellow Richard Yarrow and Harvard students Tasuku Ono and Candice Yang recently interviewed Saito Renho, a longtime leader in Japan’s opposition Constitutional Democratic Party. Renho, ... -
Grow Now, Regulate Later? Regulation urgently needed to support transparency and sustainable growth for Buy-Now, Pay-Later
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) companies have seen significant growth in the past few years in the U.S. market. BNPL products are expected to account for a considerable portion (12%) of ecommerce sales by 2025. Despite BNPL’s ... -
Environmental Policy Lessons from Roman Agrarian Philosophy
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)This essay examines Roman agrarian philosophy and poetry, with a focus on the works of Cato, Varro, and Virgil, to argue that these texts are prescient in their vision of the sustainable city: one in which economic growth ... -
Re-Thinking U.S. Policy on Engagement with Chinese Financial Institutions
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-05)Against the backdrop of heightened tensions between China and the United States that is accompanying the Ukraine war, this paper considers practical measures that the United States might take to manage the inbound investment ... -
The Struggle for Sustainable Development in Appalachia’s Mineral Rich Mountains
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-05)This teaching case examines this paradox of poverty amidst plenty. To do this, the case explores the co-evolving history of nature and society in the Central Appalachian region from the Native American period through to ... -
Stumbling bear, soaring dragon: Russia, China and the geopolitics of global science
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Policy Institute at King’s College London, 2022-07)This, the fourth paper in a series by the Policy Institute at King’s College London and affiliates of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an evaluation of international ... -
Fiscal, Monetary and Macroprudential Regimes: Incentives-Values Compatibility in Constitutional Democracies
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)I have been asked to write something about the appropriate institutional structure for monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies in an environment of persistently low interest rates. That is one important plausible ... -
Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)We study the classic divide-and-choose method for equitably allocating divisible goods between two players who are rational, self-interested Bayesian agents. The players have additive private values drawn from common ... -
Risk, Uncertainty and the Future of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2022-12)Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. This paper uses economist Frank H. Knight’s famous, albeit controversial, distinction between risk and uncertainty ... -
Content Moderation in the United States and Europe: Similar Values, Different Approaches
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-01)One hundred years ago the eminent British economist Arthur Pigou identified the problem of externalities, of a business not absorbing all of the costs associated with the goods or services it produced and sold. Classic ... -
Capital Account Liberalization and China’s Financial Integration
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-02)After four decades of rapid economic growth, China has become the world's second-largest economy and established intricate trade ties with the rest of the world. Nonetheless, China's financial integration is still in its ... -
Reducing the Burden of Government Regulation
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)Government regulations can impose significant costs on businesses that are then passed onto consumers in higher prices. This paper considers the different approaches that the UK and other governments have adopted to try ... -
Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)For most of the 20th century, inequality in GDP per capita between UK regions – while not insignificant – was relatively low by European standards (Rosés and Wolf 2018). In the 1980s and 1990s, however, regional economic ...