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Lessons from the Great Deviation

by John B. Taylorvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

How the Great Deviation killed the Great Moderation and gave birth
to the Great Recession.

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How to fix the economy

via Business Week
Monday, September 20, 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek brought together a money manager and four top economists, including Charles Calomiris, a member of the Hoover Institution’s John and Jean De Nault Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity. Their assignment? Fix the American economy.

Analysis and Commentary

Higher Education and Technological Advances as Countries Develop

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, September 5, 2010

...[I]n order for poorer countries to continue to grow at fast rates, they must move beyond specialization in goods produced with relatively unskilled labor...

Analysis and Commentary

The Russian Export Ban: An Economic Story Worth Telling

by John B. Taylorvia Economics One
Monday, August 23, 2010

[T]his summer’s grain export ban in Russia [is] a current event well worth telling students about...

Michael A. Spence

China's resilience is an economic gut check for America

Monday, August 23, 2010

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses the lessons the United States can learn from China’s resilience and growth.

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Will the Next Generation be Better off Than Their Parents’ Generation?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, August 22, 2010

The great majority of parents would like to see their children become better off economically than they are, and that hope would be even more common among the children. Yet, polls for a while have suggested that neither the majority of children nor parents in the United States are confident that this progress will happen...

Analysis and Commentary

The President's Four Rotten Policy Planks

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes.com
Monday, August 2, 2010

High taxes, fair trade: no wonder the U.S.S. Obama rides low in the water...

Analysis and Commentary

More on the Blinder-Zandi Working Paper on the Crisis

by John B. Taylorvia Economics One (blog)
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Yesterday the New York Times published an article about simulations of the effects of fiscal stimulus packages and financial interventions using an old Keynesian model...

The World at (Trade) War: The Use of Economic Sanctions

via Uncommon Knowledge
Friday, April 6, 2001

Richard Becker; David Cortright; and Michael Nacht discuss trade and the use of economic sanctions.

“Markets Are Hard to Appreciate”

by Peter M. Robinsonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, July 2, 2010

Hoover fellow Gary S. Becker is convinced that Americans don’t really want to go backwards on economic liberty. By Peter Robinson.

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The Working Group on Economic Policy brings together experts on economic and financial policy to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.

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