Donald Trump’s election and his nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on US climate-change policy.
One in seven Americans received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011, an all-time high.
An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example.
The 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration gave the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health an opportunity to assess progress towards grand convergence, and to reflect on the future of primary
California’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program is a key element of the suite of policies the State has adopted to achieve its climate policy goals.
Toward a Just Society brings together a range of essays whose breadth reflects how Stiglitz has shaped modern economics.
This paper re-examines the relationship between population aging and economic growth.
Tax competition (by states) and tax evasion (by individuals or companies) unfold at a dramatic scale. An obvious adverse effect is that some states lose their tax base.
Market measures suggest banks are as risky as they were in the pre-crisis period.
Governments across the world regularly pursue reforms that achieve less than was originally expected or is needed to make the state function better.
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