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Hoover Digest by topic: Taxes
January 23, 2012
Thomas Sargent's Rational Expectations
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Hoover’s newest Nobel Prize winner discovered a way to put actual human beings back into economic theory. By Art Rolnick.
January 23, 2012
Turnaround
In recent years we’ve seen what doesn’t work. Here’s what would. A simple plan for turning the economy around. By John B. Taylor.
January 23, 2012
Historic - But Not in a Good Way
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A presidential report card lists too many promises, too few results, and no sign that the president knows how to learn from his mistakes. By Michael J. Boskin.
January 23, 2012
Profiles in Political Courage
Clarity of purpose is only half of a winning political strategy. The other half involves a clear understanding of the possible. By Peter Berkowitz.
January 23, 2012
Stimulus and the Great Depression
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Neither the New Deal nor the war pulled the economy out of its worst crisis. What did? Wiser policies. By Lee E. Ohanian and Harold L. Cole.
January 23, 2012
A World with Genuine Opportunities
Hoover fellow Richard A. Epstein sees economic inequality in the light of incentives, innovation, and mutual gain.
January 23, 2012
Social Justice and Empty Pockets
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“People before profits” is a perverse idea that ignores the very mechanism by which people are helped. By Richard A. Epstein.
January 23, 2012
Giant Steps
A call for bold changes to taxes, entitlements, and spending. By Robert J. Barro.
January 23, 2012
The Foolishness of Blaming the Private Sector
Politicians were eager to cry “market failure” when the deeper problem was, and remains, government failure. By Gary S. Becker.
October 12, 2011
Free the Captives
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How “captive regulators,” tamed by mortgage behemoths, added to the pain of the economic downturn. By Gary S. Becker.