GPPR Podcast Editor Joe Lustig (MPP-EP ’24) speaks with McCourt Professor and prominent economist Dr. Harry Holzer to talk about one of the most salient topics in US policy today – inflation. In this podcast, Dr. Holzer walks through what inflation is, what causes it, who it affects, and what policymakers can do about it. […]
Phantom Finance: A Review of Scholarly Literature on the Public Policy Impact of Blockchain-Based Digital Economies
As the internet continues to transform our modern world, new developments in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) promise to revolutionize the monetary system as we know it. A leading example is the emergence of digital asset economies, which encourage users to buy and sell data secured on the blockchain as a form of commodified token. Yet […]