For three decades, advocates for climate change policy have simultaneously emphasized the urgency of taking ambitious actions to mitigate…
Program OverviewAddressing the urgent challenges of climate change requires a concerted, coordinated effort among governments at the sub-…
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed…
Although confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining in the Northeastern states that have been hardest hit by the pandemic, in other…
1. The unemployment crisis is severe.
2. Unemployment insurance has played a critical role both for the workers who have lost their jobs…
On 8 June, the business cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that economic activity in the US had…
It was good news that the economy added 2.5 million jobs last month. But we are still only one-tenth of the way to repairing the massive…
Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows,…
This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores,…
The falling projections of working-age population in China has led to predictions of much slower economic growth. We consider three…