Reform the Tax Code
Deficit reduction talks have overshadowed the need to reform the tax code
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In Defense of Ec 10
The Ec 10 walkout is misguided and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the course's goals.
Swamy’s Freedom of Speech
Sandra Korn explains the reasons behind her support of calls to terminate Subramanian Swamy's association with Harvard University.
What’s not to love?
Theda Skocpol is not one to mince words. Here she is, in classic form, on fiscal austerity measures: The President, Congressional leaders, and Democrats of all stripes should be yelling day in, day out, that REPUBLICANS ARE SABOTAGING NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND PREVENTING JOB GROWTH, JUST FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE. That should be the message all the time, led by the [...]
New Online Only Article!
As we wait for financial regulation reform to make its way through its final legislative hurdles, it’s a good time to step back and consider questions like how we got here and where we’re going. For this, consider checking out John He’s indispensable primer on the ideological backgrounds of Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, the two men most responsible for [...]
Reform Ideology
The intellectual underpinnings of President Obama’s financial regulation reform. With audacity and flourish, Time magazine on February 15th, 1999 dubbed the trio of Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Lawrence Summers, “The Committee to Save the World.” Today, that cover reads like a joke – instead of saving the world, this trio, more than any other, helped to create the conditions [...]
The Sociology of Mankiw
The notion that economics can explain everything about everything (re: Freakonomics) is something that I’ve always regarded as silly and kinda gross. The basic economic model — the super-rational individual relentlessly seeking out his own material self-interest — is almost embarrassingly inadequate. If you want to deal with something like the Global Financial Crisis then, yes, you do have to [...]
Larry Summers’ Endowment
The Boston Globe has a must-read article out on Larry Summer’s role in Harvard’s endowment collapse. I like the lede: It happened at least once a year, every year. In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely successful head of Harvard’s endowment, and Lawrence Summers, then the school’s president, would face off in a [...]
