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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Why Does Big Business Fear Trump?

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It is not surprising that there is little love for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy among the leaders of top US multinational corpora...
Friday, September 9, 2016

How Hillary Clinton's Social Policies Could Raise Effective Marginal Tax Rates for the Middle Class

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Hillary Clinton is often said to be a policy wonk, deeply enmeshed in specifics and details, but that may be a mischaracterization. In some...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

How Occupational Licensing Undermines Labor Fluidity, and Who is to Blame

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A healthy economy requires a fluid labor market. Even when total employment and output are stable, the labor market is in constant motion...
Monday, May 23, 2016

What Does the Unemployment Rate Measure? Labor Market Slack or the Social Stress of Joblessness? Why Does it Matter?

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The unemployment rate published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is one of the most widely watched of all economic indicators. B...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

The Social Safety Net and Work Incentives: Conservative and Progressive Views

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One of the most common criticisms of social safety net programs is that they discourage work. As House Speaker Paul Ryan has put it, they...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Inversions Strengthen the Progressive Case for Abolishing the Corporate Income Tax

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The Obama administration has taken off the gloves in its war on runaway corporations. On April 4, theTreasury released a new set of rules ...
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Monday, April 4, 2016

How Reform of the Social Safety Net Could Mitigate the High Costs of Trade Adjustment: A Response to Autor et al.

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The two most watched candidates of this presidential election season, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have put anger over the effects of ...
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