Poverty activist, social entrepreneur and author, Mauricio Miller, talks about his book The Alternative with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Miller, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, argues that we have made poverty tolerable when we should be trying to make it more escapable. This is possible, he argues, if we invest in the poor and encourage them to leverage their skills and social networks. Miller emphasizes the importance of self-determination and self-respect as keys to helping the poor improve their own lives.

Hoover Institution fellow Charles Plosser discusses the need for the Fed to sync their strategy with communications, and whether the central bankers have the will or the way to implement the fresh strategies they outlined.

The American Economic Association (AEA) has named Edward Lazear the Davies Family Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a recipient of its 2019 Distinguished Fellow awards.

I’ve had a front row seat to China for well over a decade. My law firm started this blog in January, 2006, and we were representing foreign companies in China and the rest of Asia long before that. When we started this blog we were unabashedly optimistic about China, but in the last ten or so years China has gotten more difficult for foreign companies and it has rarely missed an opportunity to prove that its promises to open its economy ring hollow.