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2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 210 1 5 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 4 6 64
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability 0 1 4 122 0 3 25 401
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security 0 0 0 37 2 2 8 75
Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay 0 0 0 20 0 0 3 95
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 9 117
Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth 0 0 1 107 4 6 16 302
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 0 1 14 89
CBO Projects More Severe Downturn 0 0 0 11 2 4 10 118
Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly 0 0 0 24 0 2 5 118
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 2 7 271
Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007 0 1 1 64 1 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 1 4 9 156
Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens 0 0 1 82 1 5 22 297
First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit 0 0 0 129 1 5 48 539
Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid 0 0 0 68 1 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 3 10 215
Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes 1 1 1 55 1 5 16 179
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 1 9 433
Is There a Housing Bubble? 0 0 0 46 0 1 2 118
Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch 0 0 0 104 1 2 3 183
Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? 0 0 0 100 1 8 25 590
Issues in Trade and Protectionism 0 0 2 167 1 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 4 10 21 219
Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence 0 1 5 526 1 3 26 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 2 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 1 5 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 1 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 1 59 1 2 10 211
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs 1 1 1 60 17 20 33 158
Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off 0 0 0 47 1 5 17 305
Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs? 0 0 0 38 0 1 13 68
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy 0 0 0 32 1 6 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 16 105
Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 0 0 1 89 0 2 7 258
Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 23 0 3 10 127
Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans 0 3 3 21 2 22 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 1 2 7 234
Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story? 0 0 0 18 0 2 13 103
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 2 8 15 827
Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics 0 0 0 21 0 2 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 1 2 4 67
Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? 0 0 0 86 0 0 6 176
Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem? 0 0 1 126 1 7 13 378
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit 0 0 0 18 1 1 9 110
Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs 0 1 3 51 0 2 15 188
Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts 0 0 0 59 1 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 0 1 5 112
The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy 0 0 0 34 0 4 11 115
The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer? 0 0 0 30 0 0 8 143
The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 17 0 4 17 126
The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax 0 0 0 107 1 2 7 346
The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed 0 0 0 35 0 2 10 81
The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession 0 0 0 139 1 3 14 339
The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates 0 0 0 56 3 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 12 0 3 5 68
The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality 0 0 0 24 0 3 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 2 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 0 0 9 150
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 41 0 1 5 156
The Gains from Right to Rent 0 0 0 26 0 1 7 138
The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet 0 0 0 89 0 2 8 280
The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? 0 0 1 57 0 0 9 112
The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus 0 0 0 95 0 5 16 336
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers 0 0 0 47 0 6 14 152
The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly 0 0 1 13 0 2 7 129
The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement 0 0 0 102 1 3 10 161
The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income 0 0 1 34 2 4 9 162
The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey 0 0 0 10 0 4 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 12 141
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 1 3 6 112
The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications 0 0 0 57 1 3 13 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 1 4 22 1,317
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 2 5 11 180
The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs 0 0 0 23 0 2 6 109
The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes 0 0 0 65 1 4 12 206
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing 0 0 0 60 1 3 10 143
The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show 1 1 1 66 2 4 10 240
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 1 2 14 171
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers 0 0 0 40 1 4 7 137
The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan 1 1 1 13 1 1 3 63
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 205 0 3 14 551
The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress 0 0 0 50 2 2 21 237
The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015 0 0 0 19 0 2 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 0 3 15 938
The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances 0 0 0 62 1 1 14 195
The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble 0 0 0 76 0 2 12 235
Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall 0 0 0 21 0 2 3 135
Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models? 1 1 1 63 1 3 9 125
Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers 0 0 0 98 2 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 3 7 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 1 4 15 205
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 1 8 23 330
Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route? 0 0 0 69 2 4 18 106
Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent? 0 0 1 35 1 2 12 112
Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story? 0 0 0 97 1 3 7 103
Total Working Papers 5 12 38 9,416 92 405 1,460 28,800


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises 0 0 1 48 0 2 8 165
Is the New Economy Wearing Out? 0 0 0 10 1 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 1 4 19 610
Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding? 0 0 0 27 1 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 3 13 73 1,742


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Conservative Nanny State 0 0 1 514 0 5 20 1,116
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive 0 0 3 194 0 5 21 549
Total Books 0 0 4 708 0 10 41 1,665


Statistics updated 2026-06-04