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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...
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.”
State Of The Debate On 'Too Big To Fail' (James Bullard Commentary)
After the financial crisis, new regulations sought to address systemic risk within the U.S. financial system, including rules addressing capital requirements, liquidity ratios and leverage levels.
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.
Global Scorecard for the Economic Slowdown
Former World Bank chief James D. Wolfensohn and historian Niall Ferguson gave a gloomy assessment of the world economy and said that while the outlook for the U.S. is dim, that for Europe is far worse...
Why More Infrastructure Spending Is Unlikely to Create Jobs and Stimulate the Economy
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...
Inequality and Economic Policy
Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference on inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of why it is increasing. Does the United States have an inequality problem?
Bipartisan Tax Advice? You’ve Got It
California’s politicians are famously addicted to division and status quo. Can’t this time be different? By John F. Cogan and Christopher Edley Jr.
Stalling the Start-Ups
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was bad legislation in even more ways than you might suppose. By Clark S. Judge.
Progressively Worse
Honesty for Hire
A few countries have found a way to stop graft and foster political stability: hire foreigners to collect their revenue. By Kris James Mitchener and Noel Maurer.
The Politics of Envy
Redistribution schemes can’t reduce income inequality. What can? Education, stable families, and work. By Jeffrey M. Jones and Daniel Heil.
Health Care: The Prognosis
Debt: The Shame of Cities and States
The Inequity of the Progressive Income Tax
Class Wars: A Parable