Journal of Economic Perspectives

Exorbitant Costs and Minimal Benefits: the Impact of Hosting the Olympics

May 6, 2020

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Sidhant Wadhera

Every four years, the world tunes in to watch pageantry, competition, and peak athletic performance at the Summer Olympics. Before the COVID-19 crisis, the 32nd Summer Olympiad was scheduled to take place in Tokyo from late July to early August 2020 and was marketed as the “Recovery Olympics” in light…
Ending Poverty? Modern Slums and Stagnation in Government Action

April 16, 2014

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Chasse Rehwinkel

Researchers find that the mechanisms behind past slum development success stories do not adequately translate to fixing slums in the modern developing world.