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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 210 0 3 13 536
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar 0 0 0 170 0 2 13 274
A Note on Distribution and Growth 0 0 0 26 0 3 6 64
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 0 0 3 122 0 2 23 401
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 0 37 1 3 9 76
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 20 1 1 4 96
Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century 0 0 0 59 0 4 9 188
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence 0 0 0 401 0 1 11 650
Attacking the Treasury View, Again 0 0 0 47 1 2 10 118
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 0 107 1 7 16 303
Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy 0 0 0 23 0 3 8 128
Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 12 0 1 3 74
Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs? 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 63
Bringing Back Subprime? The Hazards of Restructuring the GSEs 0 0 0 28 1 2 15 90
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 11 3 6 13 121
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 24 1 2 6 119
Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 0 0 0 10 0 1 7 77
Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done 0 0 0 12 0 1 8 59
Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy? 0 0 0 162 0 1 7 271
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 0 1 1 64 0 5 12 446
Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan 0 0 0 9 0 2 4 78
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden 0 0 1 74 0 3 9 156
Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens 0 0 1 82 2 7 24 299
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 0 0 0 129 2 6 49 541
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 0 68 0 4 8 183
From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar 0 0 0 76 0 1 8 88
Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century 0 0 0 64 0 3 9 228
Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections 0 0 0 26 0 1 4 145
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 71 1 4 11 216
Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes 0 1 1 55 0 4 15 179
Increasing Inequality in the United States 0 0 0 71 0 1 6 146
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 0 0 1 104 0 0 9 433
Is There a Housing Bubble? 0 0 0 46 0 0 2 118
Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 104 0 2 3 183
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 0 0 0 100 2 8 27 592
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 0 0 2 167 0 3 8 393
It's So Hard to Get Good Help 0 0 0 22 0 1 7 108
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment 0 0 0 46 0 9 21 219
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 0 0 5 526 0 1 25 1,313
Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion: The Current Poverty Measure, the NAS Alternative, and the Case for a Truly New Approach 0 0 1 123 0 7 19 385
Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews 0 0 0 29 0 3 9 86
Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 13 0 3 10 94
Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality 0 0 1 76 0 4 14 224
Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices 0 0 0 50 0 1 5 407
Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices 0 0 0 40 0 0 4 142
Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union 0 0 0 39 0 3 6 102
Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development 0 0 0 17 0 1 4 82
Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 59 0 2 9 211
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs 0 1 1 60 1 21 34 159
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 47 0 5 16 305
Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs? 0 0 0 38 2 3 15 70
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 0 0 0 32 0 4 19 146
Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus? 0 0 0 18 0 1 8 139
Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs 0 0 0 63 0 2 13 105
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 0 0 1 89 0 1 7 258
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 23 0 1 9 127
Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans 0 3 3 21 0 21 31 85
Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax 0 0 0 34 0 2 13 135
Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation 0 0 0 86 0 1 7 234
Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story? 0 0 0 18 0 2 12 103
Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 26 0 0 7 100
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 343 1 7 16 828
Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics 0 0 0 21 0 0 5 74
Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help 0 0 0 27 0 5 10 187
Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation" 0 0 0 6 0 2 4 67
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 0 86 2 2 8 178
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 1 126 0 5 13 378
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 18 0 1 9 110
Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs 0 1 3 51 1 3 16 189
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 59 0 1 7 173
Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves 0 0 0 36 0 2 11 166
Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina 0 0 0 17 0 0 4 70
The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit 0 0 0 33 1 2 6 113
The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy 0 0 0 34 1 4 12 116
The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer? 0 0 0 30 0 0 7 143
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 17 0 3 17 126
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 0 0 0 107 0 2 7 346
The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed 0 0 0 35 1 3 11 82
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 0 0 0 139 0 2 13 339
The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates 0 0 0 56 0 5 9 88
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs 0 0 0 22 0 6 22 105
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 24 0 2 6 159
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 12 1 4 4 69
The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 28 0 1 17 214
The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities 0 0 0 45 0 0 6 162
The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax 0 0 0 59 1 1 10 151
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 26 0 1 7 138
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 41 0 1 5 156
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 0 89 1 3 9 281
The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? 0 0 1 57 1 1 10 113
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 0 0 95 0 4 16 336
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 47 0 3 14 152
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 0 0 1 13 2 4 9 131
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 0 0 0 102 0 3 10 161
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 1 34 0 2 9 162
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 10 0 3 11 75
The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth 0 0 0 46 0 4 10 152
The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households 0 0 0 35 0 1 11 141
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age 0 0 0 110 0 0 12 287
The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 82 0 3 6 112
The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications 0 0 0 57 0 3 12 56
The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down 0 0 0 49 0 3 9 154
The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity 0 0 0 571 2 3 24 1,319
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There 0 0 0 19 0 3 10 158
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis 0 0 1 81 1 6 12 181
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 23 0 1 6 109
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 65 2 5 14 208
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 0 0 60 1 4 11 144
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 0 1 1 66 0 4 9 240
The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits 0 0 0 13 0 1 6 80
The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth 0 0 0 106 0 3 9 272
The Right to Rent Plan 0 0 0 19 0 2 14 171
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 40 0 3 7 137
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 0 1 1 13 0 1 3 63
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 50 0 2 21 237
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 205 0 3 14 551
The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 70
The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus 0 0 0 30 0 1 7 146
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy 0 0 0 274 1 4 16 939
The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances 0 0 0 62 1 2 14 196
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 76 1 2 13 236
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 21 0 1 3 135
Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models? 0 1 1 63 0 3 9 125
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 98 0 4 9 216
Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System 0 0 0 20 0 0 7 81
Update - Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason For Further Delays 0 0 0 68 0 6 14 241
Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary 0 0 0 22 0 3 9 81
What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession 0 0 0 101 0 0 6 233
When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts 0 0 0 32 2 5 17 207
Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 39 0 1 2 117
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble 0 0 0 135 0 1 6 588
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment 0 0 1 96 0 8 19 330
Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route? 0 0 0 69 0 4 18 106
Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent? 0 0 1 35 0 2 12 112
Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story? 0 0 0 97 2 5 9 105
Total Working Papers 0 10 35 9,416 45 393 1,480 28,845


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 0 1 48 0 1 8 165
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 0 10 0 1 3 52
Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly? 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 45
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 198 2 4 21 612
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding? 0 0 0 27 0 3 9 158
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments 0 0 0 68 0 1 12 276
The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble 0 0 0 125 0 0 13 364
Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes? 0 0 0 27 0 1 4 72
Total Journal Articles 0 0 1 508 2 12 75 1,744


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 0 0 0 514 0 3 18 1,116
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 1 1 4 195 2 3 23 551
Total Books 1 1 4 709 2 6 41 1,667


Statistics updated 2026-07-10