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Monday, June 3, 2013

Bernanke on the True Role of Economics in Public Policy

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"[L]et me wrap up economics while I'm at it. Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

The Third Age of Financial Globalization

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Here are the three ages of financial globalization, according to the Global Development Horizons report from the World Bank on the theme ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

E-Learning for College Students

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The Spring 2013 issue of  Future of Children is a symposium on "Postsecondary Education in the United States." There are thoughtf...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Some International Minimum Wage Comparisons

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The Global Wage Report 2012/13 from the International Labour Organization has this useful figure comparing minimum wages across high-income...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

China and the Environmental Kuznets Curve

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The original Kuznets curve posited, back in 1955 , that inequality of incomes would follow an inverted-U pattern as a nation's economy d...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Interview with Christopher Carroll on Saving and Presidential Communications

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The Richmond Fed publishes an insightful "Interview" with Christopher Carroll in its magazine Econ Focus for the First Quarter o...
Friday, May 24, 2013

U.S. Public Schools: Unequal Spending Across States

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Mark Dixon of the U.S. Census Bureau has authored  Public Education Finances: 2011 . The headline finding is that in 2011, per capita spen...