Minnesota passed the nation’s first charter school law in 1991, nearly twenty-five years ago. And it’s been fifteen years since we published Charter Schools in Action, which described this educational innovation as a promising path to stronger student achievement and an engine “to recreate the democratic underpinnings of public education and rejoin schools to a vigorous civil society.”
I wrote last week on the simple factual question of whether and how often the US has experienced 4% real GDP growth in the past. The deeper question, is that growth possible again? I answered yes, it's surely possible as a matter of economics.
The job title, insurance agent, probably doesn’t come to mind when you think of George P. Shultz. Shultz is the academic and economist who advised presidents dating back to Eisenhower and served in four Cabinet-level posts.
In their January 2014 monograph published by The Center for a New American Security, 20YY: Preparing for War in the Robotic Age, Robert Work, now deputy secretary of defense, and Shawn Brimley argue—not to put too fine a point on it—that the United States military needs to drop what it’s doing now and “conceptualize how a maturing guided munitions-battle network regime and advances in technologies driven primarily by the civilian sector may coalesce and combine in ways that could spark a new military-technical revolution.”
Like others here at Lawfare, I was saddened - and shocked, as well, as I had not known anything was amiss — to hear of Mike Lewis’ passing. I had just sent Mike an email, in fact, inviting him to guest post on the new DOD Law of War Manual, and that afternoon heard the news of his death.
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105), Lou Henry Hoover Building, Stanford University
This conference will celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (signed on June 15, 1215) by bringing together leading scholars in economics, political science, and law to broadly discuss how Magna Carta remains relevant today for understanding how individual liberty and rule of law are perhaps the most essential components for well-functioning societies and growing market economies.
Paul Krugman is clever. In a post, "Most of the Way with Obamacare," about the effects of Obamacare on the number of people with health insurance, he sneaks in two claims as if they are obvious and noncontroversial.
For almost six years Greece has been on the cusp of financial disaster. Its Northern European and international creditors have extended loans, suspended interest payments and forgiven some debt.
Hoover Institution fellow John B. Taylor and Harald Uhlig recount a recent series of conference aimed at codifying the most important principles guiding modern macroeconomic analysis.
If all students achieved a minimum level of basic skills, their increased earnings as adults would repay the entire investment in K-12 education, according to a study by two economists.
The Brookings Institution earlier this month held a conference entitled, “Did the Fed’s quantitative easing making inequality worse?“, examining whether central bank long-term asset purchases (commonly known as quantitative easing) expanded wealth inequality through boosting prices of financial assets that are disproportionately owned by wealthier households.
