Just back from the conference in Ancona, Italy, bearing the title of this post, papers from which can be accessed at http://fromgdptowellbei...

Moskowitz, Ron. 1970. "Professor Sees Peril in Education." San Francisco Chronicle (30 October). Governor Reagan's aide Roger ...

The employment survey indicated the number of people working fell but then the household survey showed a lower unemployment rate. While som...

I am not going to beat around the bush: my side on the issue of climate change is getting hammered. At first, it looked as though there mig...

The 19th edition of Paul Samuelson's textbook, Economics has dropped the lump-of-labor fallacy . Choosing the subjects for this text re...

So it turns out that the Somali pirate industry has developed its own financial sector, improving the allocation of resources and pooling ri...

SHORTER WORKDAY — SHORTER WORKWEEK RESOLUTION NO. 160 The time has come for wide-scale reduction in hours of work so that more people may be...

Thank you so much for signing up to hold a community jobs forum in your area. Just like the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum hosted by the P...

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard for the Peterson Institute for International Economics raises an interesting objection to emulating European Kurzarbe...

President Obama: Now, if we can't grow our economy , then it is going to be that much harder for us to reduce the deficit. The single mo...

"As the third phase comes into sight; the problem stressed by Sir H. Henderson begins to be pressing. It becomes necessary to encourage...

Come along, my friend, come along Get aboard and ride this train Nothing on this train to lose Everything to gain One lesson I have learned ...

On The Arena at POLITICO: "In November, voters are going to be thinking about jobs. If the unemployment rate is over 10.0 percent, as ...

Some economic thinkers believe that a greater level of unpaid work is an 'economic necessity' in our current time of crisis. The lo...

Statement on President Obama's Job Summit For Immediate Release: December 2, 2009 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x 115 Washington,...