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
This paper examines the current US fiscal situation and outlook through eight key questions. It finds that the fiscal trajectory is…
The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured…
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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…
We study international capital flows across 200 years. A major novelty is our analysis on official flows (government-to-government lending…
The Resilient Society by Markus Brunnermeier is a creative, wide-ranging book that aims and often succeeds at providing a new perspective…
Martin L. Weitzman was a Professor at the Harvard Department of Economics from 1989 until 2018 when he took on emeritus status as a…