This week, Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School, is of the opinion...

In the first years of the Clinton administration, James Carville famously said, “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter...

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.

Niall Ferguson, the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focused on a global history of several pandemics and discussed “1918, 1957, 2020: Big Pandemics and their Economic Consequences."

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.

Glenn Hubbard, dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, reviewed his recent book with Tim Kane, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America. 

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, the Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, discussed “The Voice of Monetary Policy,” a paper with Tho Pham (University of Reading) and Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham). John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

Property Rights, Innovation, And Prosperity with Terry Anderson and Stephen Haber.

The Hoover Institution hosted its annual Board of Overseers’ summer meeting during July 9–11, 2013.

The program began on Tuesday evening with before-dinner remarks by Paul D. Clement, a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Clement served as the forty-third solicitor general of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He has argued more than sixty-five cases before the US Supreme Court. During Clement’s speech, titled “Federalism in the Roberts Court,” he talked about the revitalization of federalism in the Rehnquist court “imposing some limits on the federal government’s power vis-a-vis the states.”