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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 210 7 7 20 543
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar 0 0 0 170 0 0 12 274
A Note on Distribution and Growth 0 0 0 26 0 0 5 64
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 0 0 3 122 1 1 23 402
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 0 37 0 1 9 76
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 20 1 2 5 97
Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century 0 0 0 59 0 0 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 0 11 650
Attacking the Treasury View, Again 0 0 0 47 0 1 7 118
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 0 107 0 1 16 303
Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy 0 0 0 23 0 0 7 128
Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 12 0 0 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 0 1 15 90
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 11 0 3 13 121
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 24 1 3 8 121
Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 0 0 0 10 1 1 8 78
Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done 0 0 0 12 1 1 8 60
Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy? 0 0 0 162 0 0 6 271
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 0 0 1 64 0 1 13 447
Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 78
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden 0 0 1 74 1 1 10 157
Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens 0 0 1 82 4 6 28 303
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 0 0 0 129 1 5 50 544
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 0 68 2 2 10 185
From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar 0 0 0 76 0 0 8 88
Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century 0 0 0 64 0 0 9 228
Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections 0 0 0 26 0 1 5 146
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 71 0 2 10 217
Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes 0 0 1 55 0 0 15 179
Increasing Inequality in the United States 0 0 0 71 0 0 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 1 1 10 434
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 5 6 9 189
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 0 0 0 100 0 2 27 592
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 0 0 2 167 0 0 8 393
It's So Hard to Get Good Help 0 0 0 22 1 1 8 109
Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment 0 0 0 46 0 0 20 219
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 0 0 3 526 2 2 22 1,315
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 0 18 385
Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews 0 0 0 29 1 2 9 88
Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 13 1 1 11 95
Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality 0 0 1 76 0 0 13 224
Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices 0 0 0 50 0 0 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 0 6 102
Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development 0 0 0 17 1 1 5 83
Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 0 0 0 59 0 0 9 211
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs 0 0 1 60 2 3 34 161
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 47 0 0 15 305
Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs? 0 0 0 38 0 2 14 70
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 0 0 0 32 1 1 20 147
Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus? 0 0 0 18 0 0 8 139
Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs 0 0 0 63 0 1 13 106
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 0 0 1 89 0 0 7 258
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 23 0 0 8 127
Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans 0 0 3 21 1 1 31 86
Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax 0 0 0 34 1 2 15 137
Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation 0 0 0 86 0 0 7 234
Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story? 0 0 0 18 0 0 12 103
Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 26 0 0 6 100
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 343 0 2 17 829
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 1 1 11 188
Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation" 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 67
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 0 86 0 2 7 178
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 1 126 0 0 12 378
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 18 0 0 9 110
Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs 0 0 3 51 2 3 18 191
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 59 2 2 9 175
Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves 0 0 0 36 1 1 11 167
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 7 114
The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy 0 0 0 34 0 1 12 116
The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer? 0 0 0 30 0 0 6 143
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 17 0 0 16 126
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 0 0 0 107 0 0 6 346
The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed 0 0 0 35 0 1 11 82
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 0 0 0 139 1 1 14 340
The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates 0 0 0 56 0 0 9 88
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs 0 0 0 22 0 0 21 105
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 12 2 3 6 71
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 24 0 0 6 159
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 14 214
The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities 0 0 0 45 0 1 7 163
The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax 0 0 0 59 0 1 9 151
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 41 2 2 7 158
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 26 1 1 8 139
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 0 89 2 3 11 283
The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? 0 0 1 57 0 1 8 113
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 0 0 95 1 1 17 337
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 47 0 0 14 152
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 0 0 1 13 1 4 11 133
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 0 0 0 102 0 0 10 161
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 0 34 1 1 8 163
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 10 0 1 12 76
The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth 0 0 0 46 2 2 12 154
The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households 0 0 0 35 0 0 10 141
The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age 0 0 0 110 2 2 13 289
The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 82 0 0 6 112
The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications 0 0 0 57 1 1 13 57
The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down 0 0 0 49 0 0 9 154
The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity 0 0 0 571 2 5 27 1,322
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There 0 0 0 19 0 0 10 158
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis 0 0 0 81 0 1 11 181
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 23 0 0 6 109
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 65 0 2 14 208
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 0 0 60 0 1 11 144
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 0 0 1 66 1 1 9 241
The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits 0 0 0 13 0 0 6 80
The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth 0 0 0 106 0 0 9 272
The Right to Rent Plan 2 2 2 21 3 3 16 174
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 40 0 1 8 138
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 0 0 1 13 0 0 3 63
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 50 1 1 22 238
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 205 0 0 14 551
The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015 0 0 0 19 1 1 6 71
The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus 0 0 0 30 0 0 7 146
The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy 0 0 0 274 1 2 14 940
The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances 0 0 0 62 0 2 14 197
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 76 1 2 14 237
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 21 0 0 3 135
Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models? 0 0 1 63 0 0 9 125
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 98 0 0 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 0 14 241
Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary 0 0 0 22 0 0 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 0 2 17 207
Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 39 0 0 2 117
Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble 0 0 0 135 0 1 7 589
Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment 0 0 0 96 0 0 18 330
Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route? 0 0 0 69 0 1 18 107
Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent? 0 0 1 35 0 0 12 112
Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story? 0 0 0 97 0 2 9 105
Total Working Papers 2 2 32 9,418 70 134 1,512 28,934


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 0 1 48 0 1 9 166
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 52
Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly? 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 45
Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets 0 0 0 198 0 3 21 613
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding? 0 0 0 27 0 0 9 158
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments 0 0 0 68 1 1 13 277
The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble 0 0 0 125 12 13 26 377
Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes? 0 0 0 27 0 1 5 73
Total Journal Articles 0 0 1 508 13 19 91 1,761


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 0 0 0 514 2 2 20 1,118
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 0 1 2 195 1 3 20 552
Total Books 0 1 2 709 3 5 40 1,670


Statistics updated 2026-09-10