…”flagship” colleges are not a local public good… I’ve long been puzzled by state support for elite universities. In contrast, I’ve long been puzzled by…
Month: March 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 This New York Times article by Paul Krugman asks the question “can we build a green economy?”, the answer is a resounding yes.…
We’ve read papers by DeLong, Ramey and others — this is a timely article on Bloomberg for our upcoming debate on multipliers and stimulus.
I track a variety of indicators, including age-specific employment-to-population data and employment relative to the normal level using census age-specific population projections. What the latest…
From EconPapers. The first article lets you follow up on the political economy of political systems that overrepresent the interest of retirees. (Of course, if you read the abstract that’s not their phrasing.) The second addresses the point I’ve made in class and on the blog, that the social security trust fund is economically meaningless; they stress how it has led the debate over retirement in counterproductive directions.