Economist Debates: Business education.
The Economist debates this issue and the answer is apparently “yes” by a margin of 51-49 – not all that different from the US presidential election outcome, with the MBA student losing out in both cases…
Economist Debates: Business education.
The Economist debates this issue and the answer is apparently “yes” by a margin of 51-49 – not all that different from the US presidential election outcome, with the MBA student losing out in both cases…
The Birthrate and America’s Future – NYTimes.com.
Ross Douthat writes, “America has had a demographic advantage, but that is no longer a sure thing.”
Rivkin and Casey: The Opening for a Fresh ObamaCare Challenge – WSJ.com.
“By defining the mandate as a tax, one that will not be uniformly applied, the Supreme Court ran afoul of the Constitution.”
Understanding the President’s fiscal cliff offer | Keith Hennessey.
According to Stanford University’s Keith Hennessey, here are the parts of the Obama administration’s offer which are supposedly “non-negotiable”:
Taxes
Debt limit
Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market | EconTalk.
I am looking forward to listening to this EconTalk podcast on my daily walk today. Here are the program notes for this podcast:
“Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Mulligan argues that increases in the benefits available to unemployed workers explains the depth of the Great Recession that began in 2007 and the slowness of the recovery particularly in the labor market. Mulligan argues that other macroeconomic explanations ignore the microeconomic incentives facing workers and employers.”
We Already Went Over the Fiscal Cliff | The American Conservative.
It’s Paul Krugman vs. Paul Krugman. Paul Krugman v.2 says there’s nothing to worry about, whereas a previous incarnation of Paul Krugman (from a decade ago – let’s call him Paul Krugman v.1) says that there is plenty to worry about… Hat tip to my Baylor colleague economist Dave VanHoose for pointing this article out to me…
Stanford’s Keith Hennessey does a great job of handicapping the politics of the so-called fiscal cliff negotiations; see
Cox and Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt – WSJ.com.
“Hiding the government’s liabilities from the public makes it seem that we can tax our way out of mounting deficits. We can’t.”