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Ralph Ranalli

@ralphranalli.bsky.social
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Host of the "Economics for Inclusive Prosperity" podcast. Producer, writer, and editor. Solution seeker. Unshakably committed to fundamental decency and compassion-centered values based on universal human rights. “Speak bravely, listen generously.”

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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With so much in the world off-kilter, it's perhaps no surprise that HBS Prof. Rebecca Henderson says the key to a better future is balance, since both unconstrained markets and capitalism and unconstrained governments have both proven to be failures. youtube.com/shorts/Hbfni...
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HBS Prof. Rebecca Henderson on regaining the crucial balance between markets and government
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We asked renowned Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson to come on and talk about what has happened since she published her landmark 2020 book: "Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire." Our talk was honest, sobering, and enlightening. Please give it a listen. youtu.be/iVrqHp33Tws
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She told CEOs they could do well by doing good. Why did they stop doing good anyway?
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Harvard Business School Prof. Rebecca Henderson joined the EFIP podcast to talk about how her thinking on rethinking capitalism has evolved since her landmark 2020 book "Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire." The full episode goes live this Wednesday, Sept. 24. #humanecapitalism
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My latest EFIP podcast is now on YouTube. Interesting chat with MIT's Liz Reynolds about critical technologies like drones and semiconductors and how making them in the US could be a win-win. #EFIP
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How do you pursue economic development in the middle of a conflict zone? We brought together another stellar panel to discuss more of the unique and daunting challenges facing the people and the economy of Palestine in Part 2 of this EFIP virtual discussion series. youtu.be/qLwjdsMR5j4
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Economic Development in Palestine, Part 2
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Economic development is always challenging, but what can you accomplish in a conflict zone? Economists Wifag Adnan, Hani Mansour, Sami Miaari, and Ayhab Saad join EFIP co-director Suresh Naidu for Part 2 of our Economic Development in Palestine discussions. econfip.org/economic-dev...
Poster with information about the EFIP Economic Development in Palestine event on Sept. 10, 2026
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Studies like this always remind me how perverse it is that Harvard still has a football team. I've always thought the program's motto should be "Harvard Football: Taking the world's greatest minds and smashing them together since 1873." hms.harvard.edu/news/least-1...
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The sociopathy of money hoarders... #aworldwithoutbillionaires. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This kind of lazy, click-bait-y story framing by the Boston Globe is how ignorant NIMBYism wins and our children and the planet lose. It's time to #cancelcorporatejournalism www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/16/s...
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This tiny Mass. town is fighting a proposed battery park, saying it could harm Boston’s drinking water. Some officials disagree. - The Boston Globe
For a half-century, this was a junkyard, and now it’s the backdrop to a pitched battle between this tiny, rural Worcester County community and an energy company that wants to build a battery park.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dear Legacy Corporate Media: There are no communists. None. Act accordingly. Full stop.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When the most corrupt governing body in international sport met the most corrupt president in the history of the United States, what exactly did we think was going to happen? #benchbalogun
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Crypto's only use cases have always been bribery, money laundering, financial crime, and naked speculation. Time to regulate it out of existence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows
President’s crypto ventures have eclipsed in revenue much of his property portfolio that took decades to accumulate
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
You can't understand inequality without fully understanding the labor market. #inclusiveprosperity
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Is it just me or is Scott Galloway's character arc really interesting?
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just arriving in my inbox... the worst sale pitch ever! "Hey, you can pay $41.99 a year for Bari Weiss!"
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman calls UMass Amherst economist Arin Dube the "go to guy on minimum wages." On our new episode, Dube discusses labor market myths and misunderstandings and what the evidence really says about the effects of minimum wage laws. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the minimum wage
Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · June 5 · 54m
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"The truth is in the middle" is one the biggest and most damaging fallacies of our time, promoted by those with wealth and power for their own benefit. The truth is where rigorous scholarship and honest inquiry says it is.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The most Orange County news story ever. ktla.com/news/orange-...
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Could Garden Grove tank explosion affect Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm or Angel Stadium?
A failing chemical tank dangerously close to exploding at an aerospace facility in Garden Grove is located less than 10 miles away from some of Orange County’s most popular attractions, including D…
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”
Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration
After a year focused on immigrants here illegally, the Trump administration is now making it harder for legal migrants to stay in the country. It is a risky pivot.
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Attention: Graduation speakers Don't risk getting booed. Do your homework. Our episode with Max Kasy is now required listening for anyone talking to young people about AI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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How to make power over AI's future more democratic
Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · February 25 · 43m
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the latest Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast: A sobering and informative talk about technology, the world food supply, and inequality with two brilliant young economists, Jacob Moscona of MIT and Karthik Sastry of Princeton. Worth a listen. t.co/zTuvsnrKLm
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A feature, not a bug. #aworldwithoutbillionaires
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thank you, Estelle! Feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear about on the podcast!
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A great chance to hear Dani explain further why he thinks manufacturing no longer holds the same promise for developing economies—and why the service sector is a key to more equitable prosperity in the future. #economicsforinclusiveprosperity
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What is Economics for Inclusive Prosperity? This is the episode where it all began, featuring Dani Rodrik and Suresh Naidu. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Welcome to Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · January 14 · 42m
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Some people have to do boring stuff at work. I get to pick Dani Rodrik's brain about issues I care about. #luckyme youtu.be/BPSDkzoZ494?...
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Dani Rodrik: Manufacturing won't save us—but the service sector might
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How can we get the equitable economic benefits of the Cold War without all the guns and tanks? Please watch. #inclusiveprosperitypodcast
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You think you know what meritocracy is. You probably don't. My latest Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Originalism is judicial claptrap, a legal hustle that undermines a dynamic declaration of principles by misrepresenting it as secular scripture and casting the Founding Fathers as ersatz apostles. Scalia was a facile fraud. Shame on his enablers, including RBG. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The latest Economics for Inclusive Prosperity vodcast on YouTube: Why it's essential to teach today's college students about the causes and impacts of record economic inequality (with Boston College Professor Can Erbil). hashtag#inclusiveprosperitypodcast youtu.be/8xzPxdFD5Rc
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Can Erbil: We must teach today’s students the economics of inequality
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New England's corporate center-right power brokers have a new hype squad. And the billionaire-owned Globe is hyping it. The Henry are taking the Globe in the same direction that Bezos is taking the Post, just less ham-handedly. #cancelcorporatejournalism www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/b...
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Warning: Scoops ahead! Sign up for Power Play, the Globe’s newsletter focused on business and power. - The Boston Globe
Shirley Leung and Jon Chesto are joining forces to launch Power Play, a new twice-a-week newsletter that lifts the lid on how power and business really work in Massachusetts.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The current U.S. government is a klepto-kakis-autocra-oligarch-cracy. I think we need a new word... #peopleofprinciple
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day. Let's spread the happiness a bit more inclusively for the next one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A very interesting conversation with Dani. One reason I like him is that he's what I call an "early adopter of empirical reality," meaning he's unafraid to look ahead to where the evidence is pointing, regardless of whether it upends conventional wisdom. Also some interesting thoughts on AI here.
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Harvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik was ahead of the curve predicting the end of neoliberal globalization. Now he's defying conventional wisdom again, saying the service sector—not manufacturing—is the most promising source of good jobs in the future. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Manufacturing won't save us—but the service sector might
Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · April 8 · 46m
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
What a pleasure to moderate this wide-ranging discussion at Harvard with three stellar economists: Dani Rodrik, Carmen Reinhart, and Gita Gopinath. There's a lot of timely wisdom here for those trying to figure out this helter-skelter time we're living in. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Economists weigh consequences of war, tariffs, AI — Harvard Gazette
Panel voices concerns over possibility of large job losses, widespread global financial instability
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our new episode is live! Economists Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) and Suresh Naidu (Columbia) discuss their research on the Great Compression, and how lessons from Cold War military spending might help fight today's inequality—without the missiles and tanks. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Lessons from the Great Compression
Podcast Episode · Economics for Inclusive Prosperity · March 25 · 49m
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If you are not actively defending truth and empirical facts, you are not a journalist. Full stop. #nonprofitjournalism
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Contrary to the old saying, you can be too rich or too thin. But you can't have too many hoodie sweatshirts.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I loved this conversation. Luigi is a fascinating guy with really interesting new ideas on how to fix capitalism.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New episode tomorrow! Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Luigi Zingales joins Economics for Inclusive Prosperity podcast host Ralph Ranalli to talk about a more human version of capitalism and why "shareholder welfare maximization" is better than shareholder value maximization.
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity @econfip.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New on the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity website: A fascinating research brief by University of Oxford Professor Maximilian Kasy on why the true battle for future of AI is between different groups of people with different priorities—not humans vs machines. #econfip econfip.org/policy-brief...
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The means of prediction and the production function of AI - Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
Executive Summary Introduction How should we regulate AI? This debate is often dominated by arguments between “AI boomers” and “AI doomers” (Hao, 2025). AI boomers claim that building “artificial gene...
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
An evil man does not become less evil by killing another evil man.
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If RFK Jr. uses social media to trash the flu vaccine, does that make him an influenzer?
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Ralph Ranalli @ralphranalli.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
One of the biggest and most long-running scams in politics is the so-called right-left spectrum. It's a toxic distraction that's easily gamed and obscures the meaningful divide—which is between people who are principle centered and those who are transaction centered.
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