Like most of you, I'm spending some time these days watching the Olympics. It's especially fun to see more obscure sports like fencing,…
The increase in the college premium—the differential in what is earned by college graduates compared with what is earned by those with…
Governor Mitt Romney had a chance to demonstrate on his trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland that he is ready to take on the duties of…
Book abstract: Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict…
This book focuses upon three core questions. Is democratic governance good for economic prosperity? Has this type of regime accelerated…
Leading US Democrats and former White House insiders Elaine C. Kamarck and Robert B. Reich break down the US presidential election and the…
An implication of the Coase theorem is that under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-…
One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also…
Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle. Emmanuel Farhi, August 2012, Paper. "We consider a dynamic Mirrlees economy in a life-cycle…