economix.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/26/2008
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Alan B. Krueger is an economist at Princeton. While President-elect Barack Obama is establishing his economic team and setting priorities, here is an idea for the incoming administration and Congress to consider: establish an independent Fiscal Policy Council to evaluate the government’s budget ...
blogs.cfr.org - 11/24/2008
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As Calculated Risk notes, before moving to New
York I worked for Mr. Geithner at both the...
Treasury and the IMF. Mr. Geithner was, by the end of the 1990s, in charge of Treasury’s International Affairs division, so almost everyone who worked ...
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A new economic team
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... design tricks to get you to spend more - Nudges
All Fall Down - Friedman - NYTimes.com
Resurrection Science - Olivia Judson
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit - Scientific American
How should we think about the monetary transmission mechanism? - macroblog
Don’t Just Spend, Do It Wisely - Economix
Closed ports worse than free trade - Project Syndicate
In Addition to a Team of Rivals: A Team of External Experts - Economix ...
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