Is the US Economy Headed for a Soft Landing?
Despite the confidence with which many analysts proclaim that a severe recession is inevitable, there is no reason to assume that the US economy will experience a major downturn this year or in 2024.
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How Hubert Humphrey Tried to Make Minneapolis, and America, Less Racist
In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.
Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start
How public, for-profit, and civic organizations working to address the same city-wide social challenge can find a common starting point.
US and China must establish military communications
The U.S. and China must establish military communications. Concerns about a crisis are not hypothetical or overexaggerated.
A more globally minded European green industrial policy
Industrial policy has for a long time raised difficult questions for policymakers to unpick.
Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion
This paper studies individual and social motives in tax evasion. We build a simple dynamic model that incorporates these motives and their interaction.
Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
This study examines the choice between subsidizing investment and subsidizing output to promote socially desirable production.
Productivism and new industrial policies: learning from the past, preparing for the future
Throughout history, economic ideology has swung from one end of the pendulum to the other, from the reification of markets to reliance on states and then back again.
The Affordability Of Individual-Market Health Insurance In California Under The American Rescue Plan Act, 2021
In 2021 the American Rescue Plan Act increased premium subsidies for people purchasing insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces and provided zero-premium Marketplace plans that covered 94 p
Two-Stage Examinations: Can Examinations Be More Formative Experiences?
Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1), followed by a second stage in which they work in groups to complete
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