
The Economic Wisdom of George Shultz
Feb 16, 2021 reflects on the long career and remarkable legacy of the economist and statesman George Shultz.
Michael J. Boskin is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was Chairman of George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993, and headed the so-called Boskin Commission, a congressional advisory body that highlighted errors in official US inflation estimates.
Feb 16, 2021 reflects on the long career and remarkable legacy of the economist and statesman George Shultz.
Dec 18, 2020 examines the three factors that will determine the new administration's room for maneuver.
Oct 21, 2020 examines trends in US income growth and social mobility to determine where the real problems lie.
Aug 24, 2020 looks for policy lessons in the aftermath of previous economic crises and downturns in the United States.
Jun 25, 2020 says the country's longer-term economic health depends on restoring and strengthening incentives to work.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.