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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Update on the Income Share of the 1%

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Emmanuel Saez has just made available his latest update on the share of income received by those at the very top of the income distribution....
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

World Drug Report 2016

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has produced the World Drug Report 2016 . The report is inevitably a bit of a disappointment to...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Trying to Envision the Original United States

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Henry Adams's  History of the United States, which for many decades was commonly acclaimed as one of the great works of history ever wr...
Friday, July 1, 2016

The Transition to Transfer Payment Government

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Government in the United States, especially at the federal level, has become more about transfer payments and less about provision of goods ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Corporate Boards: Stop Expecting the Impossible?

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Economists have been worried about what is  often called the "separation of ownership and control" in large corporations since at ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Alfred Marshall: Not Competition, But Deliberateness and Freedom

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A common complaint against economics and economists is that their theories and outlook place an emphasis on competition, when instead they s...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Can the US Continue to be an Outlier in Long Term Care?

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As population ages, it seems plausible that more people will rely on long-term care. Such care could be delivered in a variety of ways: for ...