The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial tool for economic analysis of climate policies. The SCC estimates the dollar value of reduced…
Of all the international crises facing President Obama in his final two years in office, how to cope with a burning Iraq and disintegrating…
New Varieties of State Capitalism: Strategic and Governance Implications. Aldo Musacchio, December 4, 2014, Paper. "We analyze…
Addressing long-term unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Lawrence Katz, December 3, 2014, Paper. "In the aftermath…
The political economy of adjustment and rebalancing, Jeffry Frieden, December 2, 2014, Paper. "Debt and balance of payments crises are…
Ideas are strangely absent from modern models of political economy. In most prevailing theories of policy choice, the dominant role is…
In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…