Article | Government & Politics
The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has plainly been well-earned.
How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election
approaches?
Article | Government & Politics
The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has plainly been well-earned.
Video
Bumpy Roads & Better Government
Ed Glaeser, a Harvard economist specializing in cities and infrastructure, emphasizes the importance of everyday infrastructure, such as road quality, in improving the daily lives of millions.
Featuring Edward Glaeser
Article | Government & Politics, Health
Work Longer, Die Sooner! America's Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors.
Article | History
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China’s intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.
Article | Business & Industry, Development
Article | Laws, Private Debt
By Darren Bush, Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Hal Singer
Working Paper | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple reliance on interest rates to control inflation.
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
How convincing is the model analysis by Bernanke and Blanchard? How empirically relevant are their mechanisms causing inflation – and how robust and plausible are their econometric findings?
Working Paper | Health
The empirical analysis of public sector investments and the health value created by the drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations provides a cost basis for the assessment of the maximum fair price.
By Edward W. Zhou, Paula G. Chaves da Silva, Debbie Quijada, and Fred Ledley
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
It is not just all about banking system liquidity
Working Paper | History, Macroeconomics
Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Labor
Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.
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