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 : 2010-01-02DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1736
A. Blinder
{"title":"Time for Financial Reform, Plan C","authors":"A. Blinder","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1736","url":null,"abstract":"Alan Blinder argues that something must be done, and outlines the bare minimum that we must do.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1736","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648515","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}
Economists VoicePub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1713
A. Ching, Mikayla M Clark, Tania Dutta, Yan Zhu
{"title":"Comment on Abrams and Parsons: CARS is Hardly a Clunker","authors":"A. Ching, Mikayla M Clark, Tania Dutta, Yan Zhu","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1713","url":null,"abstract":"The Cash for Clunkers program is not such a clunker if one considers a fuller list of benefits, according to Anna Ching, Mika Clark, Tania Dutta and Yan Zhu.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648041","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: 10.2202/1553-3832.1762
George A. Akerlof, R. Kranton
{"title":"Identity Economics","authors":"George A. Akerlof, R. Kranton","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1762","url":null,"abstract":"Why have the relative rates of women smoking grown so much in the last 100 years? How can the U.S. military do so well with a relatively flat pay scale? Standard economics hasn't a clue, but according to Berkeley economist George Akerlof and Duke economist Rachel Kranton, the answers lie in a new field called identity economics.","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/10.2202/1553-3832.1762","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648312","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: 10.2202/1553-3832.1734
S. Da Silva
{"title":"Comment on Casey Mulligan: Keynes in Both Fresh and Salt Water","authors":"S. Da Silva","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1734","url":null,"abstract":"Casey Mulligan suggested in The Economists' Voice that this recession was caused by \"something [that] made real wages high and employment low.\" This coincides with his own view of the causes of the Great Depression. The similarity inevitably brings back General-Theory-Keynes, according to Da Silva, and justifies the suspicion of some salt water economists that Mulligan is blaming both downturns on laziness.","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/10.2202/1553-3832.1734","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648447","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: 10.2202/1553-3832.1789
J. Delong
{"title":"Is Today's Unemployment Structural?","authors":"J. Delong","doi":"10.2202/1553-3832.1789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1789","url":null,"abstract":"Many advocate an end to stimulus and view unemployment as structural. J. Bradford DeLong of UC Berkeley challenges that view.","PeriodicalId":42390,"journal":{"name":"Economists Voice","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2202/1553-3832.1789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68648649","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}