Nina Eichacker

Nina Eichacker is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingston, RI.

May 12, 2020

Nina Eichacker

Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis

When reporters and editorial contributors to the New York Times reiterate the notion that government spending is anathema, or that we need to be worrying about debt even as we fight the coronavirus, we are setting ourselves up for a rerun of the response to the global financial crisis,

April 25, 2020

Nina Eichacker

Economic Reporting on Hardships of Pandemic Should Explore Market Failures

Editorial boards and journalists should frame economic and public health problems in more structural and systemic terms going forward as they consider the scope of the pandemic.

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