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SNAP Fraud: Getting Rich by Stealing from the Poor

发表于 2024-09-04 stealing stamps snap

SNAP - better known as food stamps - goes back to the Great Depression. ,The physical stamps were replaced with EBT cards in the 1990s, but since these cards ar…

Left liberals who remained silent on poor AQI before Diwali turn environmental ‘activists’ on Hindu festival: Exposing their hypocrisy and selective outrage

发表于 2026-11-10 poor festival pollution

The narrative that Diwali alone pushed Delhi into a pollution emergency collapses under the weight of official data for 2026. Diwali this year fell on Sunday, 8…

Paul Romer on Charter Cities

发表于 2010-04-26 concept romer charter

Paul Romer of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about charter cities, Romer's idea for helping the poorest of the poor around the world.…

William Easterly on Benevolent Autocrats and Growth

发表于 2011-05-30 benevolent autocrats grow

William Easterly of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the oft-heard claim that poor countries led by autocrats grow faster than po…

Abhijit Banerjee on Poverty and Poor Economics

发表于 2011-07-11 abhijit banerjee authored

Abhijit Banerjee of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Banerjee's book (co-authored with Esther Duflo), Poor Economics. The conversation begins wit…

Morten Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress

发表于 2013-01-07 measuring morten jerven

Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income…

Lant Pritchett on Education in Poor Countries

发表于 2013-12-02 successful pritchett lant

Lant Pritchett of Harvard University and author of The Rebirth of Education talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Pritchett argues …

William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts

发表于 2014-06-16 experts tyranny process

William Easterly of New York University and author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor talks to EconTalk host…

James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful Tree

发表于 2014-12-29 tooley james tree

James Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools in the slums and rur…

Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects

发表于 2015-05-25 megaprojects bent flyvbjerg

Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political economy of megaprojects--massive investments of a billion dollars…