Tag: Governments

We don’t talk about race to attack you

We talk about race because we are hurting because we are being murdered because we are invisible to our governments. We talk about race because we want to speak up about the violence we face every day. We talk about race because we want to be heard. We don't talk about race to hurt you or ...

Impact of COVID???19 on American Indian economies and governments

Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development researchers released the preliminary results of a study on the impact of the COVID???19 crisis on the economies and governments of the country’s 574 federally???recognized American Indian nations. Writing to Secretary of the Treasury Mnuc...

Can governments and nonprofits support community joy ???

Have Britain; Somerville, MA; or Bhutan successfully boosted happiness while it has declined in the US? If so, how? Can government and partners reverse recent declines in American happiness? This post answers those questions and more. This is the fourth post of four on the pursuit of Happiness...

Populist Governments Suck at Economics

Populists are “good” at politics, but horrible at economics. In an article by the American Economics Association, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20202045, the price of populist governments averaged over 51 populist governments resulted in a 10% drop in GDP for those ...