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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 210 4 8 8 531
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar 0 0 0 170 2 3 11 272
A Note on Distribution and Growth 0 0 0 26 1 1 2 60
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 0 2 3 121 1 16 24 398
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 0 37 0 5 6 73
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 20 1 3 3 95
Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century 0 0 0 59 1 5 6 184
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence 0 0 0 401 0 7 10 649
Attacking the Treasury View, Again 0 0 0 47 0 4 7 115
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 1 107 2 7 10 296
Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy 0 0 0 23 0 3 5 125
Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 73
Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs? 0 0 0 18 0 1 2 63
Bringing Back Subprime? The Hazards of Restructuring the GSEs 0 0 0 28 0 9 13 88
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 11 0 4 6 114
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 24 2 3 3 116
Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 0 0 0 10 2 6 6 76
Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done 0 0 1 12 1 4 8 58
Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy? 0 0 0 162 0 4 5 269
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 0 0 1 63 2 6 9 441
Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan 0 0 0 9 0 2 2 76
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden 1 1 1 74 1 4 6 152
Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens 0 0 1 82 2 8 17 292
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 0 0 1 129 6 34 48 534
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 0 68 1 2 6 179
From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar 0 0 0 76 2 6 7 87
Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century 0 0 0 64 1 5 6 225
Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections 0 0 0 26 1 2 3 144
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 71 1 4 7 212
Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes 0 0 0 54 3 9 13 174
Increasing Inequality in the United States 0 0 0 71 1 4 5 145
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 4 104 2 6 12 432
Is There a Housing Bubble? 0 0 0 46 1 1 1 117
Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 104 0 0 1 181
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 0 0 0 100 8 16 17 582
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 1 1 3 167 1 1 6 390
It's So Hard to Get Good Help 0 0 0 22 0 4 6 107
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment 0 0 0 46 5 9 12 209
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 1 2 6 525 2 10 29 1,310
Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion: The Current Poverty Measure, the NAS Alternative, and the Case for a Truly New Approach 0 1 1 123 2 10 13 378
Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews 0 0 0 29 0 3 6 83
Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 13 1 5 7 91
Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality 0 0 1 76 0 4 10 219
Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices 0 0 0 50 0 3 4 406
Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices 0 0 0 40 1 3 3 141
Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union 0 0 0 39 0 2 3 99
Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 81
Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 1 59 0 5 8 209
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs 0 0 0 59 2 9 14 138
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 47 2 9 13 300
Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs? 0 0 0 38 6 10 12 67
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 0 0 0 32 1 11 13 140
Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus? 0 0 0 18 1 4 7 138
Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs 0 0 0 63 4 9 16 103
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 1 1 1 89 1 2 5 256
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 23 1 3 7 124
Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans 0 0 0 18 2 5 10 63
Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax 0 0 0 34 1 6 12 133
Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation 0 0 0 86 1 5 5 232
Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story? 0 0 0 18 2 7 12 101
Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 26 0 4 7 100
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 343 1 3 7 819
Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics 0 0 0 21 1 2 3 72
Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help 0 0 0 27 1 1 5 182
Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation" 0 0 0 6 1 2 2 65
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 0 86 2 3 6 176
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 1 126 0 3 6 371
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 18 0 4 10 109
Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs 1 2 2 50 2 12 16 186
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 59 3 4 6 172
Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves 0 0 0 36 3 5 9 164
Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina 0 0 0 17 0 3 4 70
The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit 0 0 0 33 1 2 4 111
The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy 0 0 0 34 3 4 7 111
The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer? 0 0 0 30 1 4 8 143
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 17 1 9 13 122
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 0 0 0 107 0 4 6 344
The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed 0 0 0 35 4 6 8 79
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 0 0 0 139 3 8 11 336
The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates 0 0 1 56 0 2 5 83
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs 0 0 0 22 0 12 16 99
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 24 0 2 4 156
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 65
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 3 6 15 212
The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities 0 0 0 45 1 5 6 162
The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax 0 0 0 59 1 7 10 150
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 26 0 5 6 137
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 41 0 3 4 155
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 0 89 0 4 6 278
The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? 0 1 1 57 0 6 10 112
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 0 0 95 1 9 12 331
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 47 2 7 9 146
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 1 1 1 13 3 5 5 127
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 0 0 0 102 2 7 7 158
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 1 34 0 1 5 158
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 10 1 7 7 71
The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth 0 0 0 46 1 4 6 148
The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households 0 0 0 35 0 7 11 140
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age 0 0 0 110 4 7 12 287
The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 82 1 2 3 109
The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications 0 0 0 57 4 8 10 53
The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down 0 0 0 49 0 4 6 151
The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity 0 0 0 571 7 18 19 1,313
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There 0 0 0 19 1 6 7 155
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis 0 0 1 81 0 4 6 175
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 23 2 4 4 107
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 65 2 8 10 202
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 0 0 60 0 3 9 140
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 0 0 0 65 1 4 6 236
The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits 0 0 0 13 2 3 5 79
The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth 0 0 0 106 3 6 6 269
The Right to Rent Plan 0 0 0 19 1 10 12 169
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 40 0 1 3 133
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 0 0 0 12 0 2 2 62
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 205 3 8 11 548
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 50 6 16 19 235
The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015 0 0 0 19 0 3 3 68
The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus 0 0 0 30 1 4 6 145
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy 0 0 0 274 1 7 15 935
The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances 0 0 0 62 3 8 15 194
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 76 4 10 11 233
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 133
Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models? 0 0 0 62 1 3 6 122
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 98 0 3 5 212
Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System 0 0 0 20 1 3 8 81
Update - Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason For Further Delays 0 0 0 68 1 7 7 234
Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary 0 0 0 22 1 6 7 78
What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession 0 0 0 101 1 5 7 233
When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts 0 0 0 32 3 11 11 201
Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 39 1 1 1 116
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble 0 0 1 135 1 3 6 587
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment 0 0 1 96 2 8 17 322
Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route? 0 0 0 69 4 9 15 102
Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent? 0 0 1 35 3 6 11 110
Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story? 0 0 0 97 0 3 4 100
Total Working Papers 7 13 37 9,404 192 740 1,123 28,395


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 1 1 48 2 5 6 163
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 0 10 0 2 2 51
Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly? 0 0 0 5 2 4 4 44
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 198 4 13 15 606
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding? 0 0 0 27 3 5 6 155
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments 0 0 0 68 2 10 11 275
The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble 0 0 0 125 2 7 13 364
Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes? 0 0 0 27 2 2 3 71
Total Journal Articles 0 1 1 508 17 48 60 1,729


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 0 0 2 514 4 13 18 1,111
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 1 1 6 194 3 10 22 544
Total Books 1 1 8 708 7 23 40 1,655


Statistics updated 2026-03-04