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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
What Obama Isn't Saying
The apolitical politics of progressivism. . . .
James Delingpole: Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World
This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist James Delingpole discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the European Union, the Green movement, and socialized medicine. (47:41)
James Buckley discusses the challenges we face after the 2012 election
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, author and former Senator James Buckley discusses the transformation of the federal government and the challenges we face after the 2012 election. (28:30)
“It is going to be an extraordinary challenge for [future generations] but there are certain realities that are going to be faced. If the debt goes off on the trajectory it is currently on, in terms of devastating, destroying the economic basis of the country my grandchildren are going to face problems that I never dreamed of and you never dreamed of. Nevertheless insofar as they pay any attention of any advice I might give them it would be you have responsibilities not only to yourself and your family but to the public.”
The Road Ahead for the Fed, by George Shultz, Allan Meltzer, Peter Fisher, Donald Kohn, James Hamilton, John Taylor, Myron Scholes, Darrell Duffie, Andrew Crockett, Michael Halloran, Richard Herring, and John Ciorciari
In this new book, The Road Ahead for the Fed (Hoover Press, 2009), coeditors John B. Taylor and John D. Ciorciari bring together twelve leading experts to examine and debate proposals for financial reform and exit strategies from the financial crisis.
From Hoover Press: The Road Ahead for the Fed, by George Shultz, Allan Meltzer, Peter Fisher, Donald Kohn, James Hamilton, John Taylor, Myron Scholes, Darrell Duffie, Andrew Crockett, Michael Halloran, Richard Herring, John Ciorciari
In this new book, The Road Ahead for the Fed (Hoover Press, 2009), coeditors John B. Taylor and John D. Ciorciari bring together twelve leading experts to examine and debate proposals for financial reform and exit strategies from the financial crisis...
The fundamental question
James DeLong asks the right question. What has the financial sector contributed that justifies this...
Obama lied and the economy died
As President Clinton’s campaign mouthpiece James Carville put it so succinctly in the 1990s, “It’s the economy, stupid...
Taylor's Ruling: Government Created Credit Crisis
James Freeman interviews Stanford professor John Taylor about how Washington created the credit meltdown...
Is An Economic Relapse Coming?
Discussing whether the economy should brace itself for a relapse, with Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report; Niall Ferguson, Harvard University and James Paulsen, Wells Capital Management...
Barro, Galbraith debate US economic policy on Bloomberg
Robert Barro, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, debates, with James Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, what is wrong with the US economy, the effectiveness of fiscal austerity versus stimulus, and ways to spur growth.
Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty
Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new paper co-authored with James Robinson, "The Rise and Fall of General Laws of Capitalism," a critique of Thomas Piketty, Karl Marx, and other thinkers who have tried to explain patterns of data as inevitable "laws" without regard to institutions. Acemoglu and Roberts also discuss labor unions, labor markets, and inequality.
The Minimum Wage And Monopsony
I promised a few weeks ago to "write a further note explaining a more-sophisticated way of understanding the harmful effects of the minimum wage." This isn't it.
Keynesians in Retreat
They’ve been too wrong for far too long.
Economists weigh Prop. 87 arguments: Those on both sides of oil-tax measure stretching to make case about effects on production, revenue
If there's one thing economists hate, it's a political ad making questionable claims about finance…
Annus horribilis: Two futuristic looks at the crash of 2009
In 2005's fictional "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic magazine's James Fallows describes America's coming economic crisis by looking back from the election of 2016 -- when the 46th president of the United States will be the first since before the Civil War to be neither Democrat nor Republican...
Pacific Century: Suing China?
Can the US Hold China Responsible for the Pandemic?
Think Again And Again About The Natural Rate Of Interest
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, “Think You Know the Natural Rate of Interest? Think Again,” James Mackintosh warns about the high level of uncertainty in recent estimates of the equilibrium interest rate—commonly called r* or the natural rate—that are being factored into monetary policy decisions by the Fed.
Evaluating America's Energy Policies One Year into the Obama Administration
Participants
Members of the Shultz–Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy and distinguished invited experts in energy–related fields.
We expect to publish a record of discussions in consultation with participants
Purpose
To discuss seven critical energy issues that could be favorably influenced by effective public policies at the state, local, and fedral level. Where do these key energy issues stand in light of the past year's executive branch and congressional efforts and international developments? What is going right, what needs correcting, where are the gaps, what must be done to optimize policies?
GoodFellows: One Nation Under A Groove
In the final episode of the series for 2020, Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane reflect on lessons learned from the pandemic, Donald Trump’s future, the ruinous state of the Golden State, how society will differ in 2021, plus what gets them through their daily routines—a mixtape of UK punk, Philly-brand funk, and the soothing sounds of “Sweet Baby James” Taylor.
Policy Seminar with Mickey Levy and Peter Ireland
Policy Seminar with Mickey Levy, Chief Economist, Americas and Asia at Berenberg Capital Markets, and Peter Ireland, the Murray and Monti Professor in the Economics Department at the Morrissey College of Arts & Science at Boston College.