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Andrew Ross Sorkin: Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove on US Government
Ryo Ishida: Japan’s Hometown Tax Payment System as an Analog for a Public Contribution System
Narayana Kocherlakota Advocates Negative Rates and Criticizes the Conduct of US Fiscal Policy
John Stuart Mill on Why a Free People, to Stay a Free People, Should Do Many Things Outside of Government
How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide
Discounting Government Projects
Quartz #63—>VAT: Help the Poor and Strengthen the Economy by Changing the Way the US Collects Tax
Marcus Nunes on Changes in Real GDP Growth Following Changes in the Government Spending to GDP Ratio
Dylan Matthews: Think the poor don’t pay taxes? This chart proves you very wrong.
Yichuan Wang: Reflections on Reinhart and Rogoff--Why Time Series Are Not Enough
The Wrong Side of Cobb-Douglas: Matt Rognlie’s Smackdown of Thomas Piketty Gains Traction
Finding Out the Truth about Infrastructure Projects
Quartz #55—>Righting Rogoff on Monetary Policy
Quartz #54—>The National Security Case for Raising the Gasoline Tax Right Now
The New Republican Majority Should Keep Doug Elmendorf as Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Jon Hilsenrath, Brian Blackstone and Lingling Wei on Monetary Policy: Low Rates and QE "Didn’t Cause the Hyperinflation or Obvious Asset Bubbles that Some Lawmakers and Critics Feared"
Quartz #53—>Why You Should Care About Other People's Kids as Much as Your Own
Muhammad Ali Nasir, Miles Kimball and Robert Flood on Social Security and Its Counterparts Abroad
Scott Sumner: How to Think about France
Reihan Salam: Miles Kimball’s Quixotic but Interesting Tax Proposal
Quartz #50—>Odious Wealth: The Outrage is Not So Much Over Inequality but All the Dubious Ways the Rich Got Richer
Charles Lane on Thomas Piketty and Henry George
Timothy Dolan: The Pope's Case for Virtuous Capitalism
Matthijs Lof and Tuomas Malinen: The Growth and Sovereign Debt Correlation
Capital Budgeting: The Powerpoint File
Quartz #46—>One of the Biggest Threats to America's Future Has the Easiest Fix
Josh Barro: We Need a New Supply Side Economics—Here Are 8 Things We Can Do
Daniel Altman and Miles Kimball: Is It OK to Let the Rich Be Rich As Long As We Take Care of the Poor?
Daniel Altman and Miles Kimball: Should We Expand Government or Expand the Nonprofit Sector?
The Red Banker on Supply-Side Liberalism
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