Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-04-06DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1731
D. Kar
{"title":"Comment on Schularick: Real Sector Globalization Precedes Financial Globalization","authors":"D. Kar","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1731","url":null,"abstract":"Financial globalization cannot evolve in a vacuum. Dev Kar argues that real globalization in product markets is the ultimate source of financial globalization and must enter the equation when considering remedies.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-27DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1783
L. Seidman
{"title":"Reducing Future Deficits While Stimulating Today's Economy","authors":"L. Seidman","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1783","url":null,"abstract":"How Congress can reduce future deficits while stimulating today's economy? University of Delaware economist Laurence Seidman argues that legislators should enact a budget that maintains balance under normal unemployment levels, and a fiscal stimulus package with a clause that phases out the package as the economy returns to full employment.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-23DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1752
C. Mulligan
{"title":"Comment on Barbera: Your Gift Will Make You Rich","authors":"C. Mulligan","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1752","url":null,"abstract":"Casey Mulligan is not swayed by Barbera or Krugman's attacks on the Chicago School of economics. In fact, Mulligan argues that labor market distortions and not a banking collapse are critical to understanding our current deep recession.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-17DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1741
J. Stiglitz
{"title":"The Dangers of Deficit Reduction","authors":"J. Stiglitz","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1741","url":null,"abstract":"The rush to reduce deficits could cause serious trouble, according to Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-17DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1782
M. Kamstra, R. Shiller
{"title":"Trills Instead of T-Bills: It's Time to Replace Part of Government Debt with Shares in GDP","authors":"M. Kamstra, R. Shiller","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1782","url":null,"abstract":"At a time of public concern about rising national debt, we should consider adapting simple lessons from corporate finance to government finance. Mark J. Kamstra of York University and Robert J. Shiller of Yale University conclude that government financing tools should include a form of equity: shares in GDP.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1782","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-13DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1803
R. Sedjo
{"title":"Comment on Nordhaus: Tax Carbon, Not Fossil Fuels","authors":"R. Sedjo","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1803","url":null,"abstract":"William Nordhaus's proposal to tax fossil fuel at the source could be improved by taxing carbon emissions instead and thereby providing incentives for carbon capture and storage technology, according to Roger Sedjo.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1803","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-12DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1808
R. Wright
{"title":"Comment on Kamstra: Additional Reasons to Be Thrilled About Trills","authors":"R. Wright","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1808","url":null,"abstract":"Widespread ownership of Shiller's Trills might help to reduce rent-seeking and could be used to better incentivize government employees, according to Robert E. Wright of Augustana College at Sioux Falls.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68649588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-07DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1823
H. Aaron
{"title":"Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment","authors":"H. Aaron","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1823","url":null,"abstract":"We need to be better informed about the four formidable obstacles facing The Health Care Act (ACA), according to Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution. Aaron delves into the tough fights that lie ahead for certain sections of the ACA, given the precarious balance of political forces leading up to the 2012 election.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68650026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1695
Thomas P. Ferguson, R. Johnson
{"title":"The God that Failed: Free Market Fundamentalism and the Lehman Bankruptcy","authors":"Thomas P. Ferguson, R. Johnson","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1695","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Ferguson of U. Mass, Boston and Robert Johnson of the Roosevelt Institute argue that letting Lehman fail--not the later bailout announcement--triggered the financial collapse, contrary to the views of John Taylor and John Cochrane and Luigi Zingales.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68647954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1794
N. Ettlinger
{"title":"Comment on George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton: Contexts of Identity Formation","authors":"N. Ettlinger","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1794","url":null,"abstract":"George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton recently argued that economists and policymakers have missed the social codes that form peoples identities and guide their actions. Identity economics is sorely needed, but it must also account for context, which helps explain variation in behavior, according to Nancy Ettlinger of Ohio State University.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}