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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 210 1 2 2 523
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar 0 0 0 170 0 0 0 261
A Note on Distribution and Growth 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 58
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 0 0 0 118 1 1 6 374
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 0 37 1 1 1 67
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 92
Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century 0 0 0 59 0 0 1 178
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence 1 2 3 401 1 2 4 639
Attacking the Treasury View, Again 0 0 0 47 1 2 2 108
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 0 106 0 0 4 286
Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 120
Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 71
Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs? 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 61
Bringing Back Subprime? The Hazards of Restructuring the GSEs 0 0 0 28 0 1 1 75
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 108
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 113
Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 70
Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 50
Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy? 0 0 1 162 0 1 4 264
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 1 2 3 62 1 3 6 432
Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 74
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden 0 0 0 73 0 0 0 146
Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens 0 0 0 81 1 2 5 275
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 0 0 0 128 2 5 16 486
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 0 68 0 1 5 173
From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar 0 0 2 76 0 0 2 80
Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 219
Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections 0 0 1 26 0 0 2 141
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 71 1 1 4 205
Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes 0 0 1 54 0 0 1 161
Increasing Inequality in the United States 0 0 1 71 0 1 4 140
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 3 4 100 1 5 12 420
Is There a Housing Bubble? 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 116
Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 104 0 0 0 180
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 1 1 2 100 2 3 6 565
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 0 1 2 164 0 1 3 384
It's So Hard to Get Good Help 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 101
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment 0 0 0 46 0 0 4 197
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 1 1 4 519 1 4 18 1,281
Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion: The Current Poverty Measure, the NAS Alternative, and the Case for a Truly New Approach 0 1 1 122 1 3 7 365
Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews 0 0 0 29 1 1 3 77
Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 84
Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality 0 0 0 75 0 0 3 209
Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices 0 0 0 50 0 0 1 402
Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 138
Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 96
Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 78
Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 58 0 1 4 201
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs 0 0 1 59 0 1 4 124
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 287
Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs? 0 0 0 38 1 1 1 55
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 0 0 0 32 0 0 1 127
Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus? 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 131
Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs 0 0 0 63 1 2 6 87
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 0 0 1 88 1 1 7 251
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 23 1 3 6 117
Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans 0 0 0 18 1 2 2 53
Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax 0 0 0 34 1 1 2 121
Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation 0 0 0 86 0 1 1 227
Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story? 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 89
Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 93
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 1 1 343 0 1 3 812
Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 69
Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help 0 0 0 27 0 0 3 177
Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation" 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 63
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 0 86 1 1 1 170
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 2 125 0 1 5 365
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 99
Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs 0 0 0 48 0 4 14 170
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 166
Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 155
Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 66
The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 107
The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 104
The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer? 0 0 0 30 1 1 3 135
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 17 3 3 3 109
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 0 0 0 107 0 0 2 338
The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 71
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 0 0 0 139 0 0 4 325
The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 78
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 83
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 63
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 152
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 0 1 197
The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 156
The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax 0 0 0 59 0 0 1 140
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 151
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 131
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 1 89 0 0 3 272
The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? 0 0 0 56 0 0 1 102
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 1 1 95 0 1 1 319
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 137
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 122
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 0 0 1 102 1 2 4 151
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 0 33 1 1 2 153
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 64
The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth 0 0 0 46 1 1 1 142
The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 129
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age 0 1 1 110 0 1 3 275
The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 82 0 0 1 106
The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications 0 0 0 57 0 1 1 43
The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 145
The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity 0 0 0 571 1 2 5 1,294
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There 0 0 0 19 1 2 2 148
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis 0 0 0 80 1 1 4 169
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 103
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 65 1 2 2 192
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 2 2 60 1 4 5 131
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 0 0 1 65 0 1 4 230
The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 74
The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth 0 0 0 106 0 0 1 263
The Right to Rent Plan 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 157
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 40 0 1 1 130
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 60
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 216
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 205 0 0 1 537
The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 65
The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus 0 0 0 30 0 0 3 139
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy 0 0 3 274 1 5 11 920
The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances 0 0 0 62 1 1 2 179
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 222
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 132
Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models? 0 0 0 62 0 1 1 116
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 98 0 0 2 207
Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 73
Update - Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason For Further Delays 0 0 0 68 1 2 3 227
Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 71
What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession 0 0 0 101 0 0 1 226
When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts 0 0 1 32 0 0 2 190
Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families 0 0 1 39 0 0 3 115
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble 0 0 0 134 0 0 1 581
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment 0 0 0 95 1 1 3 305
Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route? 0 0 0 69 1 2 4 87
Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent? 0 0 0 34 0 1 2 99
Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story? 0 0 0 97 0 1 3 96
Total Working Papers 4 16 42 9,367 40 99 294 27,272


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 157
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 49
Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly? 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 40
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 198 0 0 1 591
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding? 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 149
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments 0 1 4 68 0 1 5 264
The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble 0 0 0 125 0 1 1 351
Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes? 0 0 0 27 1 1 1 68
Total Journal Articles 0 1 4 507 1 4 11 1,669


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 1 1 3 512 1 1 6 1,093
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 0 2 10 188 1 3 15 522
Total Books 1 3 13 700 2 4 21 1,615


Statistics updated 2025-03-03