Eurozone members are supposedly constrained by the fiscal caps of the Stability and Growth Pact. Yet ever since the birth of the euro,…
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Do retirement savings policies - such as tax subsidies or employer-provided pension plans - increase total saving for retirement or simply…
At the start of 2013, the eurozone’s “fiscal compact” entered into force, owing to its ratification on December 21 by a 12th country,…
There are people who are mean — simply heartless and cruel — because they enjoy it. Some lash out because of group dynamics and clique…
By analyzing the institutions that have been created to stimulate energy technology innovation in the United States, the United Kingdom,…
Scholars continue to debate what citizens know about politics, whether ordinary people lack the capacity to make rational and informed…
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis – those 13 days in October 1962 that were probably the closest the world…
In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that…
It is the mark of science and perhaps rational thought more generally to operate with a falsifiable understanding of how the world operates…
Why do countries find it so hard to get their budget deficits under control? Systematic patterns in the errors that official budget…