Ben Krause
@benjaminkrause.bsky.social
Exec Director at UChicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI): 'Frontier Research. Global Impact.' My own research is on development and governance, primarily in weak states and ungoverned spaces. Also: SciFi, dad jokes, midwesternisms.
Spoiler Alert:
By more fully accounting for quality improvements in the tech we all know and love, "rather than slipping into a 15 year productivity slump, true [Total Factor Productivity] growth rate in the manufacturing sector has averaged 0.6 per cent since 2009."
www.ft.com/content/4efe...
By more fully accounting for quality improvements in the tech we all know and love, "rather than slipping into a 15 year productivity slump, true [Total Factor Productivity] growth rate in the manufacturing sector has averaged 0.6 per cent since 2009."
www.ft.com/content/4efe...
bfi.uchicago.edu
October 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Spoiler Alert:
By more fully accounting for quality improvements in the tech we all know and love, "rather than slipping into a 15 year productivity slump, true [Total Factor Productivity] growth rate in the manufacturing sector has averaged 0.6 per cent since 2009."
www.ft.com/content/4efe...
By more fully accounting for quality improvements in the tech we all know and love, "rather than slipping into a 15 year productivity slump, true [Total Factor Productivity] growth rate in the manufacturing sector has averaged 0.6 per cent since 2009."
www.ft.com/content/4efe...
Shout out to @johnlist.bsky.social, @gubri.bsky.social and Sabrina Liu on this work!
I'm personally particularly pumped that @beckerfriedman.bsky.social will be helping build on these findings!
I'm personally particularly pumped that @beckerfriedman.bsky.social will be helping build on these findings!
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Shout out to @johnlist.bsky.social, @gubri.bsky.social and Sabrina Liu on this work!
I'm personally particularly pumped that @beckerfriedman.bsky.social will be helping build on these findings!
I'm personally particularly pumped that @beckerfriedman.bsky.social will be helping build on these findings!
. . . we delivered more than 2,000 healthy babies into this world without losing a single mother - including once in the middle of an all staff meeting when a tap-tap came honking into the crowd of us gathered in the office parking-lot with a mom minutes from delivery.
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
. . . we delivered more than 2,000 healthy babies into this world without losing a single mother - including once in the middle of an all staff meeting when a tap-tap came honking into the crowd of us gathered in the office parking-lot with a mom minutes from delivery.
If you're a government official in a Middle Income country working to overcome the 'Middle Income Trap', join us next summer in Chicago!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da49...
Growth Academy 2024 Highlights
YouTube video by Growth Academy
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you're a government official in a Middle Income country working to overcome the 'Middle Income Trap', join us next summer in Chicago!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da49...
Bringing nonvoting representatives of red-state perspectives into the congressional Democrats’ deliberations would be a strong signal of Democrats’ commitment to work for people in every part of America."
thehill.com/opinion/camp...
thehill.com/opinion/camp...
thehill.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Bringing nonvoting representatives of red-state perspectives into the congressional Democrats’ deliberations would be a strong signal of Democrats’ commitment to work for people in every part of America."
thehill.com/opinion/camp...
thehill.com/opinion/camp...
"To ensure that views from these Republican-dominated red states are not ignored, the House Democratic Caucus should invite these states’ Democratic parties to designate a recent congressional candidate to serve as a liaison with the House Democrats.
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"To ensure that views from these Republican-dominated red states are not ignored, the House Democratic Caucus should invite these states’ Democratic parties to designate a recent congressional candidate to serve as a liaison with the House Democrats.
The entire conversation is just fantastic, but jump straight to Joel's remarks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueR9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueR9...
Culture and Markets: The Potent Mix that Fueled Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Present
YouTube video by Becker Friedman Institute University of Chicago
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The entire conversation is just fantastic, but jump straight to Joel's remarks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueR9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueR9...
They explored the very topic he was recognized for this morning: “the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” -- or as we called it at the time: "Culture and Markets: The Potent Mix that Fueled Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Present"
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
They explored the very topic he was recognized for this morning: “the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” -- or as we called it at the time: "Culture and Markets: The Potent Mix that Fueled Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Present"
While we've seen much less reporting during this disaster here in the US, the tragedies unfolding in hundreds of thousands of children's lives are no less unconscionable.
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
While we've seen much less reporting during this disaster here in the US, the tragedies unfolding in hundreds of thousands of children's lives are no less unconscionable.
Today in #Haiti, nearly as many people have been displaced by the human disaster of #EconomicCollapse, failing #StateCapacity and #OrganizedCrime.
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today in #Haiti, nearly as many people have been displaced by the human disaster of #EconomicCollapse, failing #StateCapacity and #OrganizedCrime.