Political arithmetic is always suspect, and one should always examine carefully the claims of those seeking votes. Smart observers have…
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging…
We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries…
With all the problems in education these days, Arizona’s state superintendent of public instruction, John Huppenthal, thinks he has the…
Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual…
Individuals tend toward status quo bias: preferring existing options over new ones. There is a countervailing phenomenon: humans naturally…
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that…
Major shifts in the economy are rarely forecast and often not fully recognised until they have been under way for some time. So judgments…
So far in the current US presidential campaign, there has been virtually no attention paid to doing something about the US public debt…
As they have before in the aftermath of financial crises or wars, governments and central banks are increasingly resorting to a form of “…