Publications

March 2025
Case

Peru: 'A Beggar Perched on a Throne of Gold'

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer

2025
Working Paper

Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences

By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini

This chapter reviews the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences. We distinguish conceptually between the direct cultural transmission of political ideology and the transmission of more primitive preferences and beliefs that influence... View Details

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2025
Working Paper

Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis

By: Joseph E. Aldy, Forest Reinhardt and Robert N. Stavins

There is growing recognition of the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of methane as a contributor to global climate change. An important source of such emissions in some countries, including the United States, is the oil and gas (O&G) sector. This points... View Details

Keywords: Emission Reduction; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Pollutants; Energy Industry

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March 2025
Book Review

Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China | by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev // Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China | by Lynette H. Ong

By: Meg Rithmire

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February 2025
Case

Lebanon: Splintering Cedar

By: Mattias Fibiger, Jaya Y. Wen, Sophus A. Reinert and Gerard Zouein

2025
Working Paper

Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil

By: Paula Rettl

How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governance; Government Administration; Political Elections; Voting; Latin America; Brazil; South America

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February 2025
Teaching Note

Balancing Act: Nvidia's Strategy in the US-China Semiconductor Standoff

By: Jeremy Friedman

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725009. View Details

February 13, 2025
Article

Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs

By: Jaya Y. Wen, Ebehi Iyoha, Edmund Malesky and Sung-Ju Wu

When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes. Research in the aftermath of the 2018 U.S.-China trade war examined this phenomenon, finding... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; International Relations; United States; China

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2025
Book

Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau

Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.

Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Economics; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Aerospace Industry

January 2025
Teaching Note

South Africa: Growth and Inequality

By: Marco Tabellini, Marlous van Waijenburg and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-038. View Details

January 2025
Case

Barilla: Feeding the Future

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest L. Reinhardt, Dante Roscini and Carlota Moniz

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Italy

January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

Population Aging in the U.S.: Is America Ready for the 'Silver Tsunami?'

By: Marco Tabellini

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725-027. View Details

January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Population Aging in the U.S.: Is America Ready for the 'Silver Tsunami?'

By: Marco Tabellini

January 2025
Technical Note

U.S. and Global Agriculture: The Next Four Years

By: Forest Reinhardt, Sarah Dankens and Natalie Kindred

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

January 2025
Case

Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom

By: Rafael Di Tella, Pablo Ottonello and David Allen

2025
Working Paper

Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters

By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre

Using data on the residential location and migration for every voter in U.S. states recording partisan registration between 2008–2020, we find that residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has increased year over year at all geographic levels, from... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Geographic Location; Demographics