
Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann : The Education Myth
In an era characterized by political polarization and policy paralysis, we should celebrate broad agreement on economic strategy wherever we find it. One such area of agreement is the idea that the key to More...

Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann : Venezuela’s Bad Angels
– Fish do not know they are in water. They take it for granted. They would need to get out of water to understand how different things could be. Similarly, one way for people to see the uniqueness More...

Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann : A Brain’s View of Economics
– In his pathbreaking 2005 book On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins proposed an alternative paradigm of how the human brain works. In his view, the brain is not a Turing machine that manipulates symbols More...

Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann : Turning Good Economic Luck into Bad
– It is often difficult to understand how countries that are dealt a pretty good economic hand can end up making a major mess of things. It is as if they were trying to commit suicide by jumping from More...