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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 1 2 3 191 2 14 24 464
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar 4 4 18 130 9 14 41 159
A Note on Distribution and Growth 0 0 0 24 0 1 2 44
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 2 5 43 68 5 19 112 170
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 1 33 0 1 5 26
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 28
Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century 0 0 0 38 0 0 5 112
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence 3 4 19 301 4 7 32 430
Attacking the Treasury View, Again 0 3 39 39 1 9 40 40
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 1 94 1 2 6 233
Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy 0 0 0 14 1 2 11 79
Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 9 0 0 5 49
Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs? 0 0 0 16 0 1 6 40
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 10 0 0 6 57
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 20 0 1 1 73
Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 42
Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done 0 0 0 8 1 3 3 36
Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy? 2 3 8 115 2 5 37 109
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 0 1 2 44 0 2 9 299
Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 59
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden 0 1 6 62 0 1 15 75
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 3 4 25 26 9 16 63 76
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 2 52 0 2 9 72
Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century 0 0 1 43 0 1 11 137
Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections 0 0 0 21 0 1 4 113
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 1 63 3 11 26 128
Increasing Inequality in the United States 0 1 1 60 0 4 8 92
Investment Bank Welfare? The Implicit Bank Subsidies in the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) Created by the Federal Reserve Board 1 1 7 80 4 6 34 261
Is There a Housing Bubble? 0 1 2 34 0 1 8 74
Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 2 3 7 90 2 9 18 147
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 0 1 3 78 8 22 26 442
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 0 2 12 92 1 9 33 184
It's So Hard to Get Good Help 0 1 5 19 2 4 25 44
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment 1 2 2 41 2 9 19 105
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 4 8 48 395 14 36 139 867
Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion: The Current Poverty Measure, the NAS Alternative, and the Case for a Truly New Approach 1 3 5 80 1 5 13 178
Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey 0 0 2 8 0 1 4 47
Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality 0 6 45 45 0 12 62 62
Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices 0 0 1 44 0 4 47 319
Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices 0 0 1 37 1 3 11 92
Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union 0 0 0 37 0 1 7 77
Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development 0 0 1 14 0 2 3 59
Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 1 48 1 4 12 123
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 43 9 26 34 170
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 1 4 9 21 2 8 37 56
Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus? 0 0 0 16 2 3 9 77
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 0 0 2 81 1 3 14 186
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 2 8 8 8 5 11 11 11
Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax 0 1 6 33 2 5 25 48
Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation 0 0 1 81 2 5 12 131
Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 18 0 0 3 49
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 2 4 17 325 5 21 65 693
Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics 0 0 1 16 1 1 4 42
Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help 0 0 0 24 0 3 16 125
Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation" 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 39
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 1 83 2 4 10 132
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 0 100 0 3 8 254
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 58 0 1 8 127
Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves 0 1 3 31 1 2 10 75
Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 46
The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit 0 1 2 32 0 2 7 50
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 11 0 2 4 43
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 2 4 13 85 2 11 50 234
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 1 3 6 127 3 6 20 219
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 48
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 1 1 17 0 10 18 120
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 26
The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 57
The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities 0 1 2 44 1 2 15 109
The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax 0 1 3 55 1 4 13 80
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 37 2 3 14 73
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 2 22 1 2 13 55
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 2 75 0 1 12 205
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 0 0 91 0 1 11 250
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 42 2 2 5 94
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 0 0 1 4 2 2 14 38
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 1 4 10 78 0 1 16 67
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 0 27 0 1 7 70
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 7 0 3 8 37
The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth 0 0 2 40 0 2 11 89
The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households 0 0 0 33 0 1 7 77
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age 2 7 50 51 5 14 69 75
The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down 0 1 2 41 1 3 7 95
The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity 3 12 68 191 5 22 137 312
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There 1 4 9 16 1 7 29 39
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis 0 1 3 61 3 5 17 79
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 2 19 0 1 5 87
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 1 1 8 45 2 5 26 111
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 0 6 50 1 4 19 58
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 0 0 0 53 0 1 4 156
The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits 0 0 0 11 1 1 5 56
The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth 5 11 38 59 6 19 93 115
The Right to Rent Plan 0 0 0 13 0 2 12 50
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 1 5 39 0 3 20 57
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 0 0 0 8 0 2 3 34
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 1 1 38 1 4 13 136
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 2 3 13 175 3 7 28 418
The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus 0 0 0 27 2 3 11 62
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy 4 9 36 155 14 36 85 242
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 71 0 3 11 170
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 110
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 93 1 2 8 137
Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 58
Update - Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason For Further Delays 0 0 2 59 1 3 14 163
Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 55
What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession 0 0 1 96 0 0 5 180
When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts 1 1 2 22 5 9 22 56
Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families 0 0 1 31 0 1 3 89
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble 0 0 2 118 0 1 9 521
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment 2 3 8 49 3 8 28 74
Total Working Papers 54 144 662 6,130 176 573 2,161 14,421


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 1 3 38 2 4 6 104
BusinessWeek Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly? 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 24
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 1 7 0 0 4 28
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 2 4 19 161 2 4 42 455
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under-funding? 0 0 2 23 0 2 8 120
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments 0 1 4 46 0 1 6 195
The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble 2 3 10 87 4 10 35 205
Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes? 0 0 3 22 0 2 10 52
Total Journal Articles 4 9 42 389 8 23 112 1,183


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 1 3 27 429 5 17 69 856
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 2 5 42 63 4 14 108 154
Total Books 3 8 69 492 9 31 177 1,010


Statistics updated 2013-05-03