July 7, 2015
Among the least popular forms of taxation, property taxes are the most desirable because of their incentives, whom they target and their resilience.
June 22, 2015
Regulation can have unintended consequences. With football helmets or seat belts or even financial regulation, protection can create more reckless behavior.
June 1, 2015
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
May 21, 2015
Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.
May 13, 2015
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
March 27, 2015
Because he revised his country's inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece's chief statistician might be prosecuted for "breach of faith."
March 19, 2015
One of many examples in Peter Schuck's new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it "fails so often."
February 24, 2015
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.
February 20, 2015
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
February 19, 2015
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.
February 13, 2015
As the source of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has to decide if interest rates should rise when inflation is low but a jobs recovery has begun.
February 12, 2015
GDP problems include that it's not calculated the same way in different countries, its data can be tough to gather, and its components omit important items.