Edward Paul Lazear, award winning economist, public servant, and the Hoover Institution’s Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow, died Monday night. He was 72.
American-led security and economic partnerships are integral to confronting ambitions of the People’s Republic of China, said Australia’s former foreign minister Julie Bishop in a recent conversation with Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster.
It’s even more than a problem of staggering costs and unfair taxation. Erasing students’ debts would violate the economic logic of making a degree pay for itself.
Something went wrong with the rapidly expanding university in the 1960s, and the new 21st century, high-tech, globalized campus has made the mess it inherited dangerous.
President-elect Joe Biden’s yet-to-be-named education secretary will immediately face a difficult question once in office: Should states, for the second year in a row, be given waivers from their annual obligation to assess every student’s reading and math progress in grades 3 through 8? Biden has indicated that, in matters such as pandemic-fighting, his administration will look at the data and follow the evidence. That approach should also apply in education.
Assuming President Trump is true to his word and concedes the election once the Electoral College awards his job to Joe Biden, we can begin to ponder several questions.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden has an opportunity to forge a bipartisan, sustained grand U.S. strategy for Russia. With decades of experience in foreign affairs, especially transatlantic relations, he knows Russia, he knows Vladimir Putin and, equally important, he knows the region. When I worked at the National Security Council during the Barack Obama administration, I traveled with then-Vice President Biden to Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia.
The populist tradition in America is different from populism in Europe. The populist tradition in the United States reflects an especially vibrant democracy. American populism, historically and today, is an expression of intense anti-elitism. It’s an articulation that established political and economic interests have failed to represent the people’s interests.
Part 1: The OCC issued a refreshing rule proposal, covered in a nice WSJ oped by Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris. It is as interesting as a compendium of what's going on as it is for a rule to put an end to it, especially since enthusiasm for the rule is likely to change about Jan 20.
A lovely point from the always creative Tyler CowenSay, for the purposes of argument, that you had 20,000 vaccine doses to distribute. There are about 20,000 cities and towns in America. Would you send one dose to each location?
Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopening schools in a pandemic. Oster has been collecting data from K-12 schools around the country. Her preliminary analysis finds little evidence that schools are super-spreaders of COVID. She argues that closing schools comes at a high cost for the students with little benefit in reducing the spread of the disease. The conversation ends with a discussion of parenting.
A research professor at Georgetown University and director of the Edunomics Lab, Marguerite Roza, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new Edunomics Lab study on weighted student funding, which investigates the spending patterns and student outcomes in school districts.
This is a talk I gave to the local Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, sponsored by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). The local one is run by Michele Crompton and she does a great job. My topic was about things we should fear a lot and things we shouldn’t fear much. In the middle category was COVID-19. In the “not fear much” category were China (unless you live near China), terrorism, running out of land, genetically modified foods, getting shot by police, and global warming.
Jeremy Arkes, one of my friends and Navy School colleagues, who is also a friend and colleague of Judith Hermis, submitted the letter he would have sent to Governor Newsom. I did some edits, all of which he accepted, and here is the result.
I hope it’s the former. The Wall Street Journal has 6 crossword puzzles a week and I clip them and fill them out when I have spare time or at night when I’m trying to get to sleep.
Hoover Institution fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Shelby Steele discuss Steele's important new documentary film, What Killed Michael Brown? and the central role of white guilt in American liberalism.
Hoover Institution fellow H. R. McMaster says Beijing has no real interest in cooperating with the United States on issues such as North Korea, climate change, and trade, and will use the breathing space engagement affords to strengthen its competitive edge economically, diplomatically, and militarily.
Hoover Institution fellow Rose Gottemoeller talks about how NATO seeks to safeguard democratic values and the rule of law as well as whether it has adapted through the years, and what its priorities should be going forward.
interview with Michael R. Auslinvia Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses NATO 2030, a common political agenda towards China including probability, needs, risks, and benefits as well as we NATO's closer cooperation with like-minded countries outside the NATO.
Hoover Institution fellow H. R. McMaster talks about his time in government, what the US missed about China and what to do about it, and which Seinfeld character would make the best NSA.
Edward P. Lazear, an economist and White House adviser who delved into the complex relationships between employers and workers, died of pancreatic cancer Monday. He was 72.
Over the last several years — and especially since crypto recovery from the 2018 crash had started — many crypto skeptics’ voices started to soften and disappear. Meanwhile, the crypto community started gaining more and more supporters from respected individuals of the finance world.
Free markets and the laws of economics need frequent defense and explanation, and that cause is worse off after the death this week of Edward P. Lazear, a pioneer in the field of labor economics. He was 72 and had pancreatic cancer.
Edward P. Lazear, a pioneering labor economist at Stanford University who advised President George W. Bush during the financial crisis, died on Monday. He was 72.
Described as “perhaps the foremost labor economist of his generation,” economist, White House adviser and Stanford University professor Edward P. Lazear passed away from pancreatic cancer on Nov. 23.
We are deeply saddened to have to report that Edward Lazear, someone we were extremely proud to have included in our roster of authors for Capital Matters, died on Monday.
The former RBI governor, and Viral Acharya, a former RBI deputy governor questioned timing of the RBI panel's proposal at a time when 'India is still trying to learn the lessons from failures like IL&FS & Yes Bank'
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster had plenty of advice for the incoming Biden administration on foreign policy issues.
quoting Darrell Duffievia Stanford Graduate School of Business
Monday, November 23, 2020
The U.S. Treasury market came close to a meltdown in March, revealing a rickety system that threatens “national economic security,” a Stanford professor says.
Despite everything that the United States has gone through in 2020, former U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch says that he is “intensely optimistic about what’s ahead.” What gives him hope about America’s future? It’s that “every challenge we’ve faced—from Valley Forge to Covid-19—has only made us stronger and more resilient as a nation.”
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser denounced the administration's plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan before mid-January, calling the decision "abhorrent" and warning of its potentially grave consequences.
When well-educated parents complain about what their children are missing in this pandemic of thin and chaotic online classes, I suggest they read the 1966 Coleman Report. It is still one of the most influential education documents ever written, and relevant to our current plight.
Under normal circumstances, the certification of presidential election results would have been a mere formality to dot the ‘I’s and cross the ‘T’s. This election cycle though, the certification deadlines mean more now than ever.
There are fears that statues of Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi in the UK could be toppled after both were named in a Welsh government report reviewing historical figures as “complicit” in colonialism and slavery.
