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Scrap the Euro Now

by Robert J. Barrovia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

The common currency was doomed from the start. By Robert J. Barro.

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Getting Back on Track

by John B. Taylorvia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

A return to first principles: economic freedom leads to economic success. By John B. Taylor.

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Analysis and Commentary

The Dangers of an Interventionist Fed

by John B. Taylorvia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, March 29, 2012

A century of experience shows that rules lead to prosperity and discretion leads to trouble...

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The Economist's Pantheon

by Charles Wolf Jr.via Policy Review
Friday, March 30, 2012

Charles Wolf, Jr. on Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
by Sylvia Nasar

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Acemoglu on why nations fail

via EconTalk
Monday, March 19, 2012

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Daron Acemoglu of MIT and author (with James Robinson) of Why Nations Fail, the ideas in the book: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow over time and sustain that growth and others grow and then stagnate. Acemoglu draws on an exceptionally rich set of examples over space and time to argue that differences in institutions—political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system—explain the differences in economic success across nations and over time.

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Analysis and Commentary

A Better Grecian Bailout

by John B. Taylorvia Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The fears of contagion from Athens were always exaggerated. Now the issues are whether Greece will reform and whether Europe will cut it off if it doesn't...

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John B. Taylor

John Taylor discusses five keys to restoring America's prosperity on KQED’s Forum

via Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
Thursday, February 16, 2012

John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses, with Michael Krasny, his recent book First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity.

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Analysis and Commentary

Inequality and Stagnation

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Thursday, February 16, 2012

The fact that the world looks dramatically more prosperous may be due to cloudy vision, or bias. But they do cause you to wonder if the data that are being used to measure stagnation are not completely accurate or perhaps the data are distorted by the way they’re collected...

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An American History Lesson for Europe

by Thomas J. Sargentvia Wall Street Journal
Friday, February 3, 2012

Our federal government refused to bail out the states in the 1840s, thus preserving their fiscal independence...

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Economics for the Long Run

by John B. Taylorvia Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Individuals should be free to decide what to produce and consume, and their decisions should be made within a predictable policy framework based on the rule of law...

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