The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured…
In the United States, massive fiscal expansion during the pandemic protected households and helped to return output and unemployment nearly…
Sharply higher borrowing costs, especially for housing, fueled a disconnect between inflation statistics and consumer sentiment
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The Inflation Reduction Act could deliver more than $1 trillion in tax expenditures and outlays targeting clean energy deployment, but…
In Global Health 2050, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health concludes that dramatic improvements in human welfare are achievable by…
This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely…
Martin L. Weitzman was a Professor at the Harvard Department of Economics from 1989 until 2018 when he took on emeritus status as a…
Unemployment is low and inflation is falling, but consumer sentiment remains depressed. This has confounded economists, who historically…