Google books search discussed at Property Rights Task Force meetingOn February 4, the Department of Justice issued a filing with the U.S. District Court on the proposed settlement agreement between Google, book authors and publishers, suggesting that there was more work to be done on the agreement regarding the Google Book Search project.
Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on Health Care
Hoover Fellows’ Commentary on the Economic Crisis of 2008–09
Epstein and Taylor: Are we all Keynesians now?Hoover fellows Richard Epstein and John Taylor reflect on the global economic crisis of 2008 and discuss why the Keynesian narrative of events fails to identify and explain the causes at the root of the crisis.
Hoover Institution Hosts Media Colloquium on the EconomyHoover fellows Robert Hall, Douglas Rivers, Russ Roberts, and John Taylor were the featured speakers at a Media Colloquium hosted by the Hoover Institution. The U.S. economy and the economic stimulus programs were the focus of discussion at the event.
The Trouble With Progressives
Forbes, February 9, 2010
by Richard A. Epstein
Bad science leads to monopoly politics. . . .
Adverse Selection on Purpose
EconLog, February 8, 2010
by David R. Henderson
In a post a few weeks ago, I stated that I had coined a term in 1994 to describe the effects of a ban on pre-existing conditions clauses in health insurance: adverse selection by law. . . .
California and the IMF: Perfect Together?
Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal, February 8, 2010
by Bill Whalen
If California’s financial mess is Greek to you, then maybe it’s time you took a look at the troubles plaguing Greece — to see the parallel between the Mediterranean nation and the American nation-state...
On Consumer Competence
Becker-Posner Blog, February 7, 2010
by Gary S. Becker
I believe that a Consumer Financial Protection Agency will hurt rather than help consumers. . . .
1. Art as Manifesto
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Is Food the New Sex?
4. How China Won and Russia Lost
5. Epstein and Taylor: Are we all Keynesians now?
6. John B. Taylor
7. Education & the Fallacy of "Fairness"
8. The Trouble With Progressives
9. Policy Review No. 159, February & March 2010
10. The Fallacy of ‘Fairness’
Six Degrees of Separation
February 9, 2010
Unless one is an expert on the politics and economics of East Africa, one’s not likely to recognize the name William X. Scheinman.
American National Red Cross Records Description Now Available Online
February 5, 2010
The American National Red Cross (ARC) records document another facet of the World War I relief work that is the foundation of the Hoover Institution Archives collection.
Speaking of Labels…
February 2, 2010
Lisa brings up a good point in her post, labeling materials is quite often a major challenge.
Present at the Creation
January 28, 2010
In a long and distinguished career as a French diplomat, Jacques Leprette occupied a number of important posts, most notably as his country’s ambassador to the United Nations (1976–82) and to the European Community (1982–85)
February 8, 2010
Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and trade
In this podcast Russell Roberts a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, does a monologue on the economics of trade and specialization.
February 5, 2010
Hoover Media Fellow Seminar Features Journalist and Author Joan Biskupic
Joan Biskupic discussed her book American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Hoover media fellow seminar February 4.
February 5, 2010
Hoover fellow says debt contagion could spread beyond Europe
Niall Ferguson, a Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and a noted author, talks with Bloomberg’s Lori Rothman about Greece’s fiscal problems and the risk of debt contagion spreading through the euro zone and to the United States.
February 3, 2010
Hoover fellow discusses the deficit on CNBC
Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, who succeeded Ben Bernanke as chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Bush administration, discusses the economy, federal debt, deficits, and ideas and solutions for addressing the growing national debt.