Economic Policy
In your rush to understand today’s stock market numbers or tomorrow’s tax and debt debates, you might be blinding yourself to two important long-term economic trends: the tripling of income over three generations in the United States and the way poor countries are finally also raising their...
Unless the United States is willing to curb the growth in government-funded health care, it is looking forward to slow job growth and a 50% increase in federal taxes on every American, not just the rich, according to economist Edward Lazear.
Speaking to Stanford University employees a few hours...
Shared political characteristics — even when perceived and not known — can increase interaction between online dating participants at levels similar to educational background and race.
If you've ever used an online dating website, you've answered a litany of questions about yourself and your...
"I would never be one to advocate that Congress not increase the debt limit…trying to create a cash crunch crisis was absolutely thewrong thing."
Keith HennesseyLecturerStanford GSB
It wasn't exactly a love fest. But what had been billed as a shootout between two heavyweight economists at...
Long before Democrats passed their sweeping health care reform in 2010, economists across the political spectrum had argued that bad tax incentives were a major contributor to the soaring cost of American medical care.
Unfortunately, the main target of that ire was also the biggest and most...
Three years after it began, the European debt crisis casts a shadow over both the project of European integration and the global economy. The conventional wisdom is that there is no turning back. At a recent financial forum on Europe, hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, panelists...
There are all manner of approaches to 'green investing,' and the folks at Carbon Lighthouse — recipients of an $80,000 Social Innovation Fellowship from the Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business — manage to combine two of them under the same roof. The for-profit portion...