Optional Readings Macro (Top)

State of the Union

2003

• Stephen Cohen & Brad DeLong, "Shaken and Stirred," The Atlantic Monthly J/F
• Hanna Rosen, "Beyond Belief,", The Atlantic Monthly J/F
• Jonatan Rauch, "Bipolar Disorder,", The Atlantic Monthly J/F

• William Powers, "The Massless media," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2005

• P J O’Rourke, “Continental Divides,” The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2005

• Part I: The Economy

2004
America's Fortunes by the Editors
Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation? by Michael Lind  The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
America's "Suez Moment" by Sherle R. Schwenninger The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004

Part II: Society
The Angry American by Paul Starobin The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
The Other Gender Gap by Marshall Poe The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
The Tuition Crunch by Jennifer Washburn The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Putting a Value on Health by Don Peck The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Insurance Required by Laurie Rubiner The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Information, Please by Shannon Brownlee The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004

Part III: Governance
The $45 Trillion Problem by Nathan Littlefield The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Radical Tax Reform by Maya MacGuineas The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
The Chieftains and the Church by Ted Halstead The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Nation-Building 101 by Francis Fukuyama The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004

2003

• The Forgotten Home Front

• Suspicious Minds

• The New Continental Divide

• The Overtreated American

• The $6,000 Solution

• Mongrel America

• Spendthrift Nation

• The Black Gender Gap

• One-Dimensional Growth

• The Parent Trap

• A Grand Compromise

• The Fuel Subsidy We Need

• Taking Stock

• The American Paradox
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• Niall Ferguson, "Reasons to worry," NYT June 11. 2006

The Basics of Macroeconomics

Macro Introduction

• Abadie, "Poverty, political freedom, and the roots of terrorism," AEA May 2006

• Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the macroeconomy since the 1970s," JEP Fall 2004

• Brookings Institute, Government’ s 50 Greatest Endeavors of the Past Half Century, 2000

• Jim Caple, "The MLB Misery Index," ESPN.com 4/14/2004
• Harris & Codur, "Macroeconomics and the Environment," Tufts 1998
• Dora Costa & Matthew Kahn, "The rising price of nonmarket goods," AEA May 2003

• J. Bradford DeLong, Macroeconomics Textbook Manifesto. 

• Brad DeLong, Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities in the Twenty-First Century Economy: A Preliminary Taxonomy July 2002

• J. Bradford DeLong, The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History  

• Brad Delong, "Slouching Toward Utopia"

• Brad DeLong: Slouching Towards Utopia?: 20th Century Economic History  (The Old Draft has more extensive history links)

• J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Toward Utopia," Regional Review 1998:3

• J. Bradford DeLong, "The Economic History of the Twenty-First Century" (Berkeley, CA, 2000).

• "Economics of happiness," The Economist Aug 27, 2005

• John G. Fernald and Victoria Greenfield, "The rise and fall of the global economy," Chicago Fed Letter April 2001
• Benjamin Friedman, "meltdown: A case study," The Atlantic Monthly J/A 2005
• Steve Hanke, "Yugoslavia destroyed its own economy," WSJ 4/28/1999
• Daniel Kahneman...., "Toward National well-being accounts," AER May 2004

• John Katz, When the Economy Goes South: What happens in a recession? Regional Review 1999:3

• Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, "Education, Poverty, and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" JEP Fall 2003

• Paul Krugman, "Age of anxiety," NYT 11/28/2005

• Paul Krugman, "America wants security," NYT May 23, 2005

• Paul Krugman, "Intimations of recession," NYT Aug 7, 2006

• Sir Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a new science, 2005

• Joe Mattey, "Evolution of the quality of life in the US." FRBSF 9/13/1996

• Robert Mundell  "A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century" Nobel prize lecture 1999

• OECD Macroeconomics

• Emily Oster, “Witchcraft, weather, and Economic growth in renaissance Europe,” JEP Winter 2004

• Panics, Depressions, and Economic Crises 

• Peter Passell, "Maybe it Wasn't the Economy in the 1992 Election," New York Times, January 20, 1996

• Reinhart and Savastano, "The Realities of Modern Hyperinflation,"  Finance & Development,  June 2003

• Alan Reynolds" Election Economics," , A Cato Commentary, The Washington Times, September 14, 2003.

•  Alice M. Rivlin, Challenges of Modern Capitalism, NE Regional Review 3/2002

• Dani Roderick & Romain WQacziag, "Do democratic transitions produce bad economic outcomes?," AER May 2005

• "Mark Rogers, "A Primer on Short-term Linkages between Key Economic Data Series," Economic Review 1998:2

• Nouriel Roubini, Global Macroeconomics

• Nouriel Roubini and David Backus, MBA Lectures in Macroeconomics

• Nouriel Roubini U.S. Economy on web site under Current Policy Topics

• Jacob Scheslinger, "Improving economic signals may no longer deliver votes," WSJ

• State of the Union, The Atlantic Monthly   J/F 2004  America's Fortunes by the Editors

• US Economy  The Cato Institute

• The Global Economy After September 11, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Global Economy After September 11, December 2001--Contents
• The Information Technology Revolution, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Information Technology Revolution, October 2001--Contents
• "The Global Environment: A Survey" The Economist, 6 July 2002
• Robin Toner and marjorie Connelly, "Economy lifts Bush's support in latest poll," NYT 12/8/2005

• Carl Walsh, The Productivity and Jobs Connection: The Long and the Short Run of It, SFFed 2004-18, July 16

• Michael Wines, "Zimbabwe's prices rise 900%, turning staples into luxuries," New York Times May 2, 2006)

• "whose economy is it anyway?" NYT 12/25/2005

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Output Market  

• Anders Åslund in his "The Myth of Output Collapse after Communism" suggests the declines reported in official statistics grossly overestimate the collapse in GDP because in the Communist era the numbers were inflated so the declines look larger

• Richard Easterlin, "The worldwide standard of living since 1800," JEP Winter 2000

• Dora Costa & Matthew Kahn, "The rising price of nonmarket goods," AER May 2003
• "In the shadows: The informal economy is neither small nor benign," The Economist 6/19/2004
• Bary Hobijn & David Lagakos, "Inflation Inequality in the United States," FRBNY Staff Paper October 2003
• Paul Krugman,"age of Anxiety," NYT 11/28/2005
• Paul Krugman, "America wants security," NYT May 23, 2005
• NPR Living on earth
• William Nordhaus, "Quality changes in price indexes," JEP Winter 1998
• Michael Pakko and Patricia Pollard, "Burger Survey Provides Taste of International Economics" The Regional Economist January 2004
• Michael Pakko and Patricia Pollard, "Burgernomics: A Big Mac Guide to Purchasing Power Parity,"  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 85, No. 6, November/December 2003, pp. 9-27.
• Peter Sanfy & Utku Teksoz, "Does transition make you happy?," European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, April 2005
• Freidrich Schnieder, "Size and measurement of the Informal Economy in 110 Countries Around the World," World Bank Working Paper, July 2002
• Richard Steckel, "Biological Measures of the Standard of Living," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2008
• Jerry Useem, "The GDP and Stuff," Fortune 10/27/2003
• Hans-Joachim Voth, "Living standard during the industrial revolution: An economist's guide." AEA May 2003
• US Commerce Department, Survey of Current Business
• Vachris, Michelle and James Thomas. "International Price Comparisons and Purchasing Power Parity"
• Hans-Joachim Voth, "Living standards during the industrial revolution: an economist's guide," AER May 2004
• Ronal Wirtz, Gross Domestic Product: Understanding News from Noise  Region Minn Fed June 2002
   

Green Accounting

• "A knight's errand: Sir Crispin Tickell addresses students on dangers facing environment," Harvard Gazette, 12 December 2002. 
• Green Accounting Bibliography
• Green accounting
• Cobb, Halsteqd, & Rowe, "If GDP is UP, Why is America Down?," The Atlantic Monthly October 1995
• Bob Hambly,  "Numbers," Time Magazine, 16 July 2001, Notebook, p. 15. [magazine] Time's weekly "Numbers" column highlights a misuse of GDP calculations: "$800,000,000 – How much Los Angeles drivers contribute to the GDP by burning gas in traffic jams. (So what's the point? We spend too much time in traffic--or thanks, drivers, for beefing up the U.S. bottom line?)"
• Daniel Kahneman...., "Toward National Well-Being Accounts," AER May 2004
• Kevin Kliessen, Assessing the Generational Gap in Future Living Standards through Generational Accounting,  Regional Economist July 1997
• Kynge, China considers 'green GDP index', Financial Times, UK - Dec 8, 2003
• Kenneth Stewart, "National Income Accounting and Economic Welfare: The Concepts of GNP and MEW... St Louis
• "The Global Environment: A Survey" The Economist, 6 July 2002
• Gernot Wagner,  "Fixing GDP: Green Accounting in the US," Living on Earth Today, 11 July 2002,
• Alison Wallace and Brian Motley, A Better CPI, FRBSF Economic Letter 2/5/`999 
• UN Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
• UN Human Development Report
• UN HDR Statistics
• US Commerce Department, Integrated Economic and Environmental Satellite Accounts Survey of of Current Business April 1994
• US Commerce Department, BEA's Strategic Plan for 2001-2005
• World Bank Quick Reference Tables
• World Bank, Environmental Indicator Initiatives - An Overview of Selected Initiatives at the World Bank, 2002
• World Bank, Estimating National Wealth: Methodology and Results, 1998
• World Bank Indicators of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2003 (421KB PDF)
• Adjusted net savings data
• World Bank Green National Accounts: Policy Uses and Empirical Experience, 1996
• World Bank, Mapping Global Environment
• World Bank Policy Applications of Environmental Accounting, 2003
• World Bank, Poverty and Environment Indicators (194KB PDF), 2002
• World Bank, The Little Green Data Book , 2002
• World Bank, Wealth Estimates (1994)
• World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2001: Environment
• WWW Resource Accounting
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Prices 

• Katherine G. Abraham
, "Toward a Cost-of-Living Index: Progress and Prospects,"  
• Box Office Hits: Adjusted and Unadjusted for Inflation

• Box Office Hits: Adjusted and Unadjusted for Inflation

• Stephen Cecchetti, Rita Chu, and Charles Steindel, "The unreliability of inflation indicators," Current Issues FRBNY April 2000

• Todd E. Clark, A Comparison of the CPI and the PCE Price Index   KC Economic Review 1999:3

• Todd E. Clark, "An Evaluation of the Decline in Goods Inflation,"  KCER 2: 2004

• Todd E. Clark, Comparing Measures of Core Inflation KC Economic Review 2002:2

• "Costs of Living: Official inflation rates suit nobody perfectly," The Economist June 5, 2004

• Bart Hobijn and David Lagakos, Social Security and the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly, May   Volume 9, Number 5
• Jerry Hausman, " Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index,"       
• Kevin Kliesen, "Critiquing the Consumer Price Index," The Regional Economist July 1997
• Medievil prices
• NASA inflation calculators
• William Nordhaus, "Quality change in price indexes," JEP Winter 1998
• Michael Pakko, "Comparing apples and oranges," The Regional Economist October 2002
• Robert Pollak, "The consumer price index: A research agenda and three proposals," JEP Winter 1998
• William Poole and Howard J. Wall, Price Stability and the Rising Tide: How Low Inflation Lifts All Ships Regional Economist Jan 2000
• Charles L. Schultze, "The Consumer Price Index: Conceptual Issues and Practical Suggestions,"  
• Charles Steindel, "Are there good alternatives to the CPI?,     Current Issues NYFed April 1997 
• Symposium: Consumer Price Index  JEP Winter 2003
• Alison Wallace and Brian Motley, A Better CPI, FRBSF Economic Letter 2/5/`999 
• Jonathan L. Willis, What Impact Will E-Commerce Have on the U.S. Economy? KCER 2: 2004
• Tao Wu, "Improving the way we measure consumer prices," FRBSF 8/22/2003

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Productivity

• Bart van Ark and Robert H. McGuckin, " International labor productivity and per capita income," Monthly Labor Review, July 1999
• Edwin R. Dean, "The accuracy of the BLS productivity measures" Monthly Labor Review, February 1999
• Lucy P. Eldridge, "How price indexes affect BLS productivity measures" Monthly Labor Review, Feb 1999
• William Gullickson and Michael J. Harper, "Possible measurement bias in aggregate productivity growth" Monthly Labor Review, Feb 1999
• Ziaul Z. Ahmed and Patricia S. Wilder, "Multifactor productivity trends in manufacturing industries, 1987–96"  Monthly Labor Review, June 2001
• Kevin J. Stiroh, What Drives Productivity Growth?, Economic Policy Review, FRBNY, March 2001
• The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compare with History's Best?

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Capital Market  

• Global Financial Data
• OSU Virtual Finance Library

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Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory

Pre 1903s

• Brad Delong, "The Roaring 20s"

• Sacco & Vanzetti Case, The Atlantic Monthly 1927
• Economic and Fiscal Policy, Home Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy. ... Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
• Federal Reserve Act
• Williamson,  "Late 19th Century Globalization Backlash," 1998

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1930s

• "A refresher on the 1930s," The Economist 9/19/1998

• Economic and Fiscal Policy, Home Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy. ... Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
• Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute

• John Maynard Keynes, The World's Economic Outlook, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1932

• Paul Krugman, "The Return of Depression Economics," Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 1999
• Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray, . Fiscal Policy For the Coming Recession: Large Tax Cuts are Needed to Prevent a Hard Landing  Levy Economics Institute Policy Notes. 2001/2
• Edward C. Prescott Some Observations on the Great Depression, Minn Fed Winter 1999 [Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]  [Abstract available on-line]

• "The New Deal: Time for a New Look," Wall Street Journal  

• IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability. IMF
• IFS Virtual Model
• WWW-VL HISTORY: UNITED STATES
• HISTORY: USA: 1930-1940
• A New Deal for the Arts  (National Archives)
• 1930s Great Depression Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
• Transcribed Oral History / Photographs / Resources / E-mailed Contributions /Prices of the era
• Songs of the Great Depression
• Photographs of the Great Depression
• Timeline of the Great Depression
• The Depression Papers of Herbert Hoover, The Bonus March
• The Depression Papers of Herbert Hoover
• Microsoft's site on FDR with links to cartoons, the fireside chats, and the FDR Library includes audio clips, and America in the 30s project at the University of Virginia, which includes some audio clips and film analysis.  You can also check out the portal, New Deal Network where you will find links to a number of subjects including a photo gallery and document library.  You may also want to check out The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s where the life stories of more than 10,000 men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups were recorded.  Another would be some photos from this era available on-line at the Library of Congress, the FDR Library, or from Corbis. 

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1960s

• Daniel Aaronson and Daniel Sullivan, "Cross-state evidence on the relationship between unemployment and wage growth" Chicago Fed Letter, 
  May 2001 
• Marco Del Negro, Turn, Turn, Turn: Predicting Turning Points in Economic Activity, , Atlanta FRB Economic Review 2001II
• Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch, Five Questions about Business Cycles (PDF - 216 KB),  FRBSF 2001
• Economic and Fiscal Policy, Home Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy. ... Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
• Eisenthower, farewell address to the nation in 1961
• Espinoza-Vega & Russell, "History and Theory of the NAIRU: A Critical Review," Atlanta FRB Economic Review 1997:2
• Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
• Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Scott Schuh “Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles? An Overview” NE Economic Review November/December 1998 
• IFS Virtual Model
• IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability. IMF
• John Judd, "NAIRU: Is it useful for monetary policy?" FRBSF Economic Letter 11/21/1997
• Fred Kaplan, JFK's first-strike plan, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct 2001
• Kevin Kliesen, "The NAIRU: Tailor-Made for the Fed?, The Regional Economist October 1999
• Kevin Lansing, Can the Phillips Curve Help Forecast Inflation? FRBSF Economic Letter October 4, 2002
• Kevin Lansing, "Spendthrift Nation," FRBSF 11/10/2005
• Milt Marquis, "What's behind the low US personal savings rate?," FRBSF 3/29/2002
• Charles R. Morris, "It's not the economy stupid," The Atlantic Monthly, July 1993
• Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall, . Fiscal Policy For the Coming Recession: Large Tax Cuts are Needed to Prevent a Hard Landing  Wray Policy Notes. 2001/2 Jerome Levy Economics Institute
• Ellen R. Rissman, "Can sectoral labor reallocation explain the jobless recovery?" Chicago fed letter December 2003  (PDF 66KB)
• Carl Walsh, The Role of Fiscal Policy, FRBSF Economic Letter September 6, 2002
• Congressional Budget Office
• [The History Guy: Arab-Israeli Wars: Suez War (1956)]

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Forecasting

• Jonathan B. Baker The Case for Antitrust Enforcement, JEL Spring 2004,
• Bold Moves: What Governments might accomplish in the next 50 years, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 
• David Brooks, "Looking Back on Tomorrow,  The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002
• Geoffrey Colvin, "An executive risk handbook," Fortune 10/3/2005
• Conference Board
• Brad DeLong Introduction to Slouching Toward Utopia,
• Drachma Denarius' Technology Trends (May 2004),
• DRI-WFI
• e-forecasting
• Famous Predictions From Throughout History,
• Futures oriented web sites,
• Geopolitics and Energy, Key Trends: 2000-2020 by Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies July 2002.
• Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts
• Info Savy - collection of writings / presentations
• Robert D Kaplan, The world in 2005, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Mar 2002
• Abraham Lustgarten, "Getting ahead of the weather," Fortune 2/7/2005
• Bill McKibben, A special moment in history, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; May 1998  (environment)
• New Economics
• OECD International Futures Programme
• Recent Forums for the Future Publications
• Resources for Economists: Forecasting
• The Next Society, The Economist, November 3, 2001

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1970s International

• Summers, "Reflections on managing global integration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999

Exchange Rates

• "Better than guesswork?"  The Economist 10/30/1999
• Chiodo & Owyang, "A Case Study of a Currency Crisis: The Russian Default of 1998," St L Economic Review N/D 2002
• Exchange Roller Coasters The strong dollar-weak dollar debate and the vagaries of currency exchange rate regimes.
• Croke...,"Financial market developments and economic activity during current account adjustments in industrial economies," FRB 2005
• "Currency competition," The Economist 9/29/2005
• Thomas Friedman, "Honey I shrunk the dollar." NYT 2/24/2005
• Johnatan Fuerbringer, "talk in Japan shakes dollar and treasurues," 3/11/2005
• Joseph Gagnon, "Currency Crashes and Bond Yields in Industrial Countries," FRB 2005
• Reuven Glick, "The Bretton Woods System: are we experiencing a revival? symposium summary," FRBSF 11/25/2005
• "Hard landing heresy," The economist 9/10/2005
• Hutchison, Is Official Foreign Exchange Intervention Effective?,  SF Economic Letter , July 18 2003
• "How the bug can spread," The Economist 7/21/2001
• Kenneth Kasa, "The Composition of International Capital Flows," FRBSF Economic Letter 6/2/2000
• Henry Kaufman, "Today's Financial Euphoria Can't Last," WSJ 11/25/1996
• Andrew Kramer, "Awash in petrodollars, Russia frets about paradoxes of bounty," NYT 11/15/2005
• Jane Little, Anatomy of a Currency Crisis: What we can learn from Southeast Asia Regional Review Fall 1997
• Ramon Moreno, "What explains capital flows?," FRBSF Economic Letter, 2000-22; July 21, 2000
• Michael R. Pakko and Patricia S. Pollard, Burgernomics: A Big Mac™ Guide to Purchasing Power Parity (PDF 734k), Data (.xls)
  Michael R. Pakko and Patricia S. Pollard, Burger Survey Provides Taste of International Economics, Regional Economist January 2004
• Eduardo Porter, "Waiting for the petrodollars to trickle down," NYT 10/16/2005
• "Pushing the euro, puling the yen,"  The Economist 7/17/1999
• Mark Speigal, "Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention," FRBSF Economic Letter 12/12/2003
• "The battle royal for Brazil's real,"  The Economist 9/12/98
• "The cutting edge," The Economist 2/24/2001
• "The dwindling dollar," The Economist 10/29/1994
• "The perils of prediction,"  The Economist  8/1/1998
• "The dwindling dollar,"  The Economist 10/29/1994
• Ronald Wertz, "Exchange Roller Coasters," The Region December 2002

Euro

• History of European Union
•  Chronology of the European Union

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International Monetary Systems 

• History of European Union

• Chronology of the European Union

• Andrew Berg & Eduardo Borensztein, "Full Dollarization: The Pros and Cons," IMF December 2000
• Chang, "Dollarization: A Scorecard," Economic Review Atlanta Fed, 2000:3
• Russell Cooper and Hubert KempfDollarization and the Conquest of Hyperinflation in Divided Societies, Minn Quarterly Review Summer 2001
• "Currency dilemmas," The Economist 11/18/2000
• J. Bradford DeLong, "Post-World War II Western European Exceptionalism: The Economic Dimension," in Ivan Berend, ed., Looking at the Marshall Plan (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).
• J K Galbraith, "The Brazilian Swindle and the Larger International Monetary Problem," Levy Institute 2002/2
• Kopke, "Currency Board: Once an Future Monetary Regimes?" NE Economic Review M/J 1999
• Jane Sneddon Little and Giovanni Olivei, , "Why the Interest in Reforming the International Monetary System?," NE Economic Review S/O 1999
• Jane Sneddon Little and Giovanni Olivei, "Rethinking the International Monetary System: An Overview” NE Economic Review N/D 1999
• "Man of the hour," The Economist 10/16/1999
• Meltzer & Sachs, "A Blueprint for IMF Reform,"  WSJ
• Pakko & Pollard," Burgernomics: A Big Mac™ Guide to Purchasing Power Parity," St L Economic Review, N/D 2001 (PDF 734k)
• Nouriel Roubini and Brad Setser, "The US as a Net Debtor: The Sustainability of the US Imbalances", Revised November 2004.
• Kenneth Rogoff, "Managing the World ecoomy," The Economist 8/3/2002
• Spiegel, Argentina's Currency Crisis: Lessons for Asia, SF Economic Letter August 23 2002
• Mark Spiegal, "Dollarization in Argentina," FRBF Economic Letter 9/24/1999
• Stiglitz, "Thanks for Nothing," The Atlantic Monthly October 2001
• Summers, "Reflections on managing global integration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999
• "The dollar and the deficit," The Economist 9/14/2002
• Velde & Veracierto, "Dollarization in Argentina," Chicago Fed Letter 6/1999
• Alan Taylor, "Dollarization as a Technology Import," FRBF Economic Letter 5/19/2000
• Nouriel Roubini Debate on IMF and World Bank Reform on web site under International Financial Systems
• Nouriel Roubini Debt Relief for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)  on web site under International Financial Systems
• Nouriel Roubini Current Global Financial Issues on web site under International Financial Systems
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, How to Run the International Monetary Fund Foreign Policy J/A 2004
• Lawrence H. Summers, America Overdrawn Foreign Policy J/A 2004

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Balance of Payments and Trade

• Perspectives on the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Sustainability Catherine L. Mann  JEP Summer 2002
• Paul Bergin "Should We Worry about the Large U.S. Current Account Deficit?" FRBSF Economic Letter, December 22, 2000
• C. Fred Bergsten, "Foreign economic policy for the next president," Foreign Affairs M/A 2004
• Cletus C. Coughlin, Michael R. Pakko and William Poole, Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Dangerous?, The Regional Economist, April 2006
• J. Bradford DeLong (1998), "Robber Barons", in Anders Aslund, ed., Perspectives on Russian Economic Development (Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

• Griswold, "America's maligned and misunderstood trade deficit," Trade Policy Analysis, April 20, 1998

• George A. Kahn, Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges--A Summary of the Bank's 2000 Symposium   KC Fed

• Hervey & Kouparitas, "Should we be concerned about the current account?," Chicago Fed Letter, April 2000

• Higgins & Klitgaard, "Viewing the current account deficit as a capital inflow," FRBNY Current Issues 12/1998

• Jill A. Holman , "Is the Large U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable?," Chicago Fed Economic Review 2001:1

• Pakko, "The US Trade deficit and the New Economy," StL Review S/O 1999

• Pakko The U.S. Trade Deficit: Sideshow to the "New Economy"? The Regional Economist April 2002

• Papaioannou & Kei-Mu Yi, "The effects of a booming economy on the US trade deficit," RBNY Current Issues, 2/2001

• Shaikh, Zezza, and Dos Santos, "Is international growth the way out of US current account deficits? A note of caution," Levy Institute 2003/6

• "The great thrift shift," The Economist 9/24/2005

1970s Money

Readings

J. Brad DeLong, "America's Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," 12/19/1995

• William F. Hummel, Money : What it is and How it Works A series of short  articles
• Michael Hutchison, "Japan's Recession: Is the Liquidity Trap Back?," FRBSF Economic Letter, 6/16/2000
• Paul Krugman, "The Return of Depression Economics," Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 1999
• Lansing, "Exploring the Causes of the Great Inflation," FRBSF Economic Letter 7/7/2000
• Peltz, "Dear Mr. Greenspan," Worth J/A 2002
• Romer & Romer, "Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor," KC Economic Review 1999:1
• Jack and the beanstalk - and money
• Wu, What Makes the Yield Curve Move?, FRBSF Letter 2003-15, June 6

The fed and asset markets

• "Bubble trouble," The Economist 9/4/1999 
• Andrew J. Filardo, "Monetary Policy and Asset Prices," KC Fed Economic Review, 2000:3
• Holcomb & Hussain, "Asset price bubbles: implications for monetary regulatory, and international policies." Chicago Fed Letter 9/2002
• "Hubble, bubble, inflation trouble?," The Economist 5/9/1998
• Lansing, "Should the Fed React to the Stock Market?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Nov 14, 2003
• "Rudeusch, "Asset Prices, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy," FRBSF Economic Letter 6/15/2001
• Nouriel Roubini Is the Fed Causing an Asset Bubble? on the web site under International Financial Systems

The fed and its policies

• Ben S. Bernanke, Alan S. Blinder, and Bennett T. McCallum, Panel Discussion I: What Have We Learned Since October 1979? FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
• R. W. Hafer and David C. Wheelock, "The Rise and Fall of a Policy Rule: Monetarism at the St. Louis Fed, 1968-1986 ,"  FRBSTL Review J/F 2001
• Dennis Wu, Interest Rates and Monetary Policy: Conference Summary, FRBSF Econmic Letter  2004-13, June 4
• R.W. Hafer, What Remains of Monetarism?,  Atlanta FRB Economic Review 2001:IV
• Judd & Rudebusch, "The Goals of U.S. Monetary Policy," FRBSF Econmic Letter 1/29/1999
• Kozicki, "How Useful Are Taylor Rules for Monetary Policy?" KC Economic Review 1999:2
• David E. Lindsey, Athanasios Orphanides, and Robert H. Rasche, "The Reform of October 1979: How It Happened and Why" FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
• Allan H. Meltzer, Origins of the Great Inflation  FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
• Laurence H. Meyer, Does Money Matter,  FRBSTL Review, S/O 2001
• "Monopoly power over money," The Economist, November 20, 1999
• Patricia S. Pollard, "A Look Inside Two Central Banks: The European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve," 
  FRBSTL Review J/F 2003
• Poole, "Monetary policy rules," StLFed Review M/A 1999
• "The central banker as god," The Economist 11/14/1998
• "U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction," FRBSF Economic Letter 1/1/1999
• Walsh, "The Science (and Art) of Monetary Policy," FRBSF Economic Letter, 5/4/2001
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction, Part 4: How does the Fed decide the appropriate setting for the policy instrument? 2004-04, February 6 
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction Part 3: How does monetary policy affect the U.S. economy? 2004-03, January 30 
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction Part 2: What are the goals of U.S. monetary policy? 2004-02, January 23
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction Part 1: How is the Fed structured and what are its policy tools? 2004-01, January 16
• Lansing, Should the Fed React to the Stock Market? FRBSF Letter 2003-34, November 14
• Williams, The Natural Rate of Interest, FRBSF Letter  2003-32, October 31

• William Poole, Volcker’s Handling of the Great Inflation Taught Us Much Regional Economist, 1/2005

• Nouriel Roubini U.S. Monetary Policy on web site under Current Policy Topics

Background Material

• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,"  
• Richard N. Cooper and Jane Sneddon Little, “U.S. Monetary Policy in an Integrating World: 1960 to 2000” NE Economic Review 2001:3Abstract + Full text PDF
• "More bubble and squeak," The Economist 4/20/2002
• Pu Shen, "How Important Is the Inflation Risk Premium?" KC Economic Review 1998:4
• Spegel, "What Monetary Regime for Post-War Iraq?," FRBSF Economic Letter, May 9, 2003

History of money

• Michael Bryan..., "Who is that guy on the $10 bill,? Cleveland FRB Economic Commentary June 2000

• Bureau of Engraving: History of money in US

• Crime of 1873"

• "Crisp and even" The Economist 12/22/2001

• Cross of Gold  

• Glyn Davies, Money in North American History. From Wampum to Electronic Funds Transfer

• Roy & Glynn Davies, A Comparative Chronology of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day 1996

• "Money matters: The American Experience with Money," Chicago Fed

• R. A. Radford, "The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp," Economica 1945, pp. 189-201.

• Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E. Weber, Lessons From a Laissez-Faire Payments System: The Suffolk Banking System (1825–58), Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1998, [Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]  [Abstract available on-line]
• Ron's Currency... The History of U.S. Paper Money
• Bruce D. Smith, Money and Inflation in Colonial Massachusetts, Originally published in Quarterly Review Winter 1984
  [Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]  [Abstract available on-line]
• Bruce D. Smith, The Relationship Between Money and Prices: Some Historical Evidence Reconsidered, 
  Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1988, [Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]  [Abstract available on-line]

• San Francisco Fed web exhibit: History of money in US

• François R. Velde, Following the yellow brick road: How the United States adopted the gold standard  

• Wizard of Oz Littlefield  UNO Yellow Brick Road: The Economics Behind The Wizard of Oz American Monetary Institute  

• Learning Network, U.S. Money History

• Monetary History
  • History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
  • Money in North American History. From Wampum to Electronic Funds Transfer
  • U.S. Money History, from the Learning Network
  • The History of U.S. Paper Money
  • Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1800 to the Present
  • Consumer Price Indexes, from the Department of Labor
  • Conversion of Dollars Adjusting for Inflation
  • What was the Inflation Rate Then? [Calculator of Periods of Inflation]

Interest rates

• Williams, The Natural Rate of Interest, 2003-32, October 31 SF Economic Letter
• Wu, What Makes the Yield Curve Move?, 2003-15, June 6 SF Economic Letter

• Forces That Shape the Yield Curve, Mark Fisher, Atlanta FRB Economic Review 2001

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1980s

Reaganomics

• Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the macroeconomy since the 1970s," JEP Fall 2004
• Bill Keller, "THE RADICAL PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH; Reagan's Son",   NYT Sunday Magazine, January 26, 2003, Sunday
• Keith Sill, "The macroeconomics of oil shocks," Business Review PHil Fed 2007 Q1

• Bharat Trehan, "Why hasn't the jump in oil prices led to a recession," FRBSF 11/18/2005

• Bill Keller, "Reagan's Son," NYT 1/26/2003

Economic growth

• President Carter's Malaise speech
• Center for International Development: Geography and Economic Growth
• Abed & Davoodi, Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa IMF Sep 2003
• D Acemoglu,..., "The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation," AER December 2001
• David Aschauer, "Rx for productivity: build infrastructure," Chicago Fed Letter 9/1988
• Anders Åslund, "The Myth of Output Collapse after Communism," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001
• Robert Barro & Rachel McCleary, "Religion and economic growth," NBER WP 9682
• Scott Baier...., "Modern economic growth and recent stagnation," Economic Review (Atlanta) 2003:3
• Fred Block, "The 'Thing' Economy and the 'Care' Economy," Alternet.org Nov 7, 2003
• Lynn Elaine Browne and Rebecca Hellerstein, "Are We Investing Too Little?," NEER N/D 1997
• Clark, "A review of Avner Greif's Institutions and teh path to modern economy: Lessons from a Medievil Trade," JEL Septemeber 2007
• Crafts, Nicholas. "Forging ahead and falling behind: the rise and relative decline of the first industrial nation." JEP. Spring 1998
• Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Tony Addison with Sampsa Kiiski's article, "Income Distribution Changes and their Impact in the Post-World War II Period" describe the magnitude of the growing inequality internationally
• Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Julius Courtin's  "Inequality, Growth and Poverty in the Era of Liberalization and Globalization" (UN Policy Brief No. 4, 2001)
• Douglas Dalenberg & Randall Eberts, "Public infrastructure and economic development," Economic Commentary 1/15/1988
• Brad Delong, "The meaning of economic growth,"
• J. Bradford DeLong, "What Do We Really Know About Economic Growth?" in Michael Boskin., ed., Economic Growth (Stanford: Hoover Institution, forthcoming).
• J. Bradford DeLong (1993), "Very Long-Run Economic Growth, ca. 1870-1990," in Horst Siebert, ed., Economic Growth in the World Economy (Kiel: Institute for World Economics).
• J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers (1993), "Macroeconomic Policy and Long-Run Growth," Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Quarterly Review.
• J. Bradford DeLong (1997), "Renewing Economic Growth: Lessons from More than a Decade of Research." (Washington, DC: ACCF).
• Jared Diamond, Guns, germs, and steel," 1997
• David Dollar & Aart Kray, "Economic growth is good for the poor," World Bank 2000
• Chrys Dougherty and Dale Jorgenson,  "International Comparisons of the Sources of Economic Growth", American Economic Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 25-29
• Steven Dowrick and J. Bradford DeLong, "Globalisation and Convergence," in Jeffrey Williamson, ed., Globalization in Historical Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
• Richard Easterlin, "The worldwide standard of living since 1800," JEP Winter 2000
• William Easterly & Ross Levine, "tropics, germs, and Crops: How endowments influence development," NBER WP 9106
• Stephen Easton and  Michael Walker,  "Income, Growth, and Economic Freedom," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 328-32
• "Economic reform and growth." AER. May 1996
• Sebastian Edwards, "Openness, productivity and growth: What do we really know," Economic Journal March 1998
• Sebastian Edwards, "Why are savings rates so different across countries? An international comparative analysis. NBER WP 5097 April 1995
• Roger Ferguson& WilliamWascher, "Distinguised lecture on economics in government: lessons from past productivity booms," JEP Spring 2004
• Charles Fishman, "The toll of a new machine," Fast Company May 2004
• Christopher Foote, William Block, Keith Crane and Simon Gray, "Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq," JEP Summer 2004
• Frazier Institute, Economic Freedom of the World (index)
• Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer, "The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 354-58
• God, man, and growth," The Economist 11/15/2003
• Robin Grier, "Colonial legacies and economic growth," Public Choice March 1999
• Growth and Institutions, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- April 2003
• Robert Hall and Charles Jones,  "Levels of Economic Activity across Countries," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 173-77
• Robert Hall and Charles Jones, "why do some countries produce so much more output per worker than other countries," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1999
• Hall, Robert E. and Charles Jones. "What we have learned from recent empirical growth research." AER.   May 1997
• Milka S. Kirova and Robert E. Lipsey, "Measuring Real Investment: Trends in the United States and International Comparisons" Review, StLFRB, J/F 1998
• Kenneth Kasa, "Growth and government policy: lessons from Hong Kong and Singapore," FRBSF 10/21/1994
• Kevin L. Kliesen and Frank A. Schmid, Fear of Hell Might Fire Up the Economy, The Regional Economist July 2004
• Timur Kuran, "Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation," JEP Summer 2004
• David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 1998
• Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, Development Centre of the Organization for Economic C0-Operation and Development, 2001
• Preston Miller and James Schmitz, "Breaking down the barriers to technological progress," Minn Fed 1996 Annual Report biblio to other studies)
• Ming Lu, Jianyong Fan, Shejian Liu, and Yan Yan, Employment restructuring during China’s economic transition," Monthly Labor Review August 2002
• "New growth theory and economic history: match or mismatch?" AER. May 1996
• Marcus Noland,  Religion, Culture, and Economic Performance by Institute for International Economics Sep 2003 
• Emily Oster, Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe,  JEL Winter 2004
• "Out of anarchy," The Economist 2/19/2000
• "Poverty and the ballot box," The Economist 5/14/2005
• Lant Pritchett,  "Divergence, big time." JEP. Summer 1997
• "Roots of development,"  The Economist 10/5/2002
• Jeffrey Sachs, "Tropical Underdevelopment," CID September 2000
• Jeffrey Sachs, "Nature, nurture, and growth," The Economist 6 / 14 / 1997
• Jeffrey Sachs..., "Ending Africa's Poverty Trap," Brookings Institution 2004
• Jeffrey Sachs, "Helping the world's poorest," The Economist
• Jeffrey D Sachs and Andrew Warner,  "Fundamental Sources of Long-Run Growth," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 184-88
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin, "I Just Ran Two Million Regressions," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 178-83
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin's Syllabus, ECONOMICS G6301, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT I (Fall 2002)
• Marcelo Selowsky and Ricardo Martin, "Policy Performance and Output Growth in the Transition Economies," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 349-53
• Kevin J. Stiroh, What Drives Productivity Growth?, Economic Policy Review, FRBNY, March 2001
• "The devil's excrement," The Economist 5/24/2003
• "The global menace of local strife," The Economist 5/24/2003
• "The road to hell is unpaved," The Economist 12/21/2002
• Bhat Trehan, "Trade and growth: some recent evidence," FRBSF 7/1/1994
• Understanding growth - a special issue of the IMF's Finance & Development magazine, from March 2006
• World Bank's 2000 World Development Indicators
• World Bank, 2006 World Development Report - Equity and Development.
• World Bank's "Doing Business"
• Tarik Yousel, "Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950," JEP Summer 2004
   

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1990s

Setting

• James Dale Davidson, "The depression of the 1990s-It's already here," WSJ 2/11/1993
• Cogley, "The recession, the recovery, and the productivity slowdown," FRBSF Weekly Letter 1/8/93
• "Hard Times Again," The Economist 1/5/1991
• Paul McCracken, "Better times ahead, WSJ 7/21/93
• Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott, Productivity and the Post-1990 U.S. Economy StLFED Review J/A 2005
• Motley, "The sources of the growth slowdown" FRBSF Weekly Letter 2/5/93
• Motley, "The landing was harder than we thought!," FRBSF Weekly Letter 10/19/90
• Brian O'Reilly, "Preparing for leaner times," Fortune 1/27/92
• Pennar & McNamee, "The new face of recession," Business Week 12/24/1990
• Pennar, "Ask not what your economy can do for you...," Business Week 12/17/1990
• Allen Sinai, "What's Wrong with the Economy?," Challenge N/D 1992
• "The American dream, the American nightmare," The Economist 10/7/89
• Throop,"The Slow Recovery," FRBSF Weekly Letter 9/25/92
• Trehan, "TAn unprecedented slowdown," FRBSF Weekly Letter 5/8/92
• Trenholme, "Where's the recovery?" FRBSF Weekly Letter 11/27/92
• Uchitelle, "Not getting ahead? better get used to it.," NYT 12/16/90

New Economy (I&E Reading List)

• W. Brian Arthur, "Why tech is still the future," fortune 11/24/2003
• "Lessons from the tax reforms of the 1980s." AER. May 1995
• Phineas Baxandall, Taxing Habits  
• Joseph J Cordes, "Reconciling normative and positive theories of government." AER May 1997
• J. Bradford DeLong, "Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities in the Twenty-First Century Economy: A Preliminary Taxonomy," International Finance 2002:2. Also in Adam Posen, ed., Stabilization Policy: Why and How? (New York: Council on Foreign Relations). Slides for conference presentation.
• John D Donahue,  "Tiebout? or not Tiebout? The market metaphor and America's devolution." JEP. Fall 1997
• Robert Heilbroner, "Anti-depression economics," The Atlantic Monthly April 2003
• Richard Musgrave,  "Devolution, grants, and fiscal competition." JEP Fall 1997
• E. Matthew Quigley  state financial crises
• Joseph Stiglitz, "Distinguished lecture on economics in government: The private uses of public interests: Incentives and Institutions." JEP. Spring 1998
• Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schukenecht. "Reconsidering the fiscal role of government: The international perspective." AER May 1997
• Alan Tonelson, "Clinton's World," The Atlantic Monthly February 1993
• The Return of Big Government
• The 21st Century Economy, Business Week, Aug 24-31, 1998
• 21st Century Capitalism, Business Week, Nov 18, 1994
• What's left?," The Economist 5/12/2001
• Nouriel Roubini New Economy and Productivity Growth on web site under Current Policy Topics
• Jones, The Fiscal Problem of the 21st Century, FRBSF Letter  2003-27, September 19
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• 2000s
• Kevin Kliesen, Do We Have a Saving Crisis? StL Regional Economist July 2005
• 2000s Bush Macro Policies

• "Briefings: At issue in the 2004 Election," Harpers July 2004

• Budget Options, 2001

• Colvin, "Soaking the rich? Better believe it." Fortune 4/14/2003

• "The suits inside the battledress," The Economist 4/19/2003

• Citizens for Tax Justice, "How Do the Bush Tax Cuts Effect Your State? New Fact Sheets Available" 11.25.03

• Law

• CTJ Analysis of Revised Bush Tax Plan

• Tax Cut Proposals -- an AAUP Background Paper

• resident Bush Signs HR 2, Containing Major Tax Cut for ..

• National Taxpayers Union - Commentary, 2003-01-13

• Tax, Legal, Legislative Highlights: President Bush Signs Tax-Cut .

• ext of the of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of

• Agenda for tax relief released in February 2001, and signed into law as the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2001 [text of the of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2001

• Crimes Against Nature, Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years, By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• Nouriel Roubini China's Economy    and  Geo-Strategic Implications of a Rising China on web site under Current Policy Topics

• Niall Ferguson, "The next war of the world," Foreign Affairs S/O 2006
• John B. Judis, Imperial Amnesia," Foreign Policy, July/August 2004
• Ian Bremmer, "Are the US and China on a collision course? Fortune 1/24/2004
• Simon Romero, China emerging as US rival for Canada' oil," NYT 12/23/2004

• Benjamin DeMott, “Whitewash as public service: How the 9/11 commission report defrauds the nation.” Harpers Oct 2004

• Center for New American Century

• Richard Goodwin, Making the facts fit the case of war,"  NYT 2/8/2004

• Martin Wolf, "Will the nation state survive globalization," Foreign Affairs J/F 2001

• Resource Center on Ageing, UC Berkely
• BC Center on retirement
• Social Security Bulletin
• History
  • Bill Hunot, "FDR and the Origins of Social Security,"  April 25, 2002 (Senior Public Affairs Specialist - Social Security Administration)
  • Chronology
  • Key dates in history
  • Legislative History
  • OASIS History articles
  • Reports & Studies
  • Reprints of Anniversary Issues of OASIS magazine (SSA)
  • Texts of statements at 1935 Congressional Hearing
  • Why Social Security (1937 Social Security Board Pamphlet)
• International update
• Facts & figures 2004
• Congressional Budget Office
  • SS Publications
    • Social Security: A Primer, September 2001
    • Testimony on Budgetary Perspectives on the Outlook for Social Security, February 9, 2005
    • Social Security and the Federal Budget: The Necessity of Maintaining a Comprehensive Long-Range Perspective, August 1, 2002
    • How Pension Financing Affects Returns to Different Generations, September 22, 2004
    • SS and the federal budget, Social Security: A Primer (September 2001)
    • A 125-Year Picture of the Federal Government's Share of the Economy, 1950 to 2075, (July 3, 2002)
    • The Looming Budgetary Impact of Society's Aging, (July 3, 2002).

• Albert Alesina and Edward Glaeser, Fighting poverty in the US and Europe: A world of difference," Oxford University Press forthcoming in 2004
• Daniel Altman, "A bit of doodling about a tax-cut danger," NYT January 1, 2006
• Edmund Andrews, "Bust tax cut offers most for very rich, study finds," NYT Jan 8, 2007
• Alan Auerbach, "A consumption tax," The Wall Street Journal August 25, 2005
• Phineas Baxandall, "Taxing Habits,"Regional Review Q1 2003
• Richard Bayon, "The Fuel Subsidy We Need," The Atlantic Monthly, J/F 2003
• "Big oil's big windfall," NYT March 28, 2006
• Ray Boshara, "The $6,000 Solution," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2003
• David Brooks, "Looking pack on tomorrow," The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002
• Dalton Conley, "Turning the tax tables to help the poor," NYT 11/15/2004  op-ed
• Joseph J. Cordes,  "Reconciling normative and positive theories of government." AER May 1997
• "Death and taxes," The Economist  7/8/2000
• Jason DeParle, "On right and left, a push for government openness," NYT July 3, 2006
• Peter F. Drucker , Really reinventing government, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Feb 1995
• Erik Eckholm, "Chicago orders 'bix box' stores to raise wage," NYT July 27, 2006
• David Fettig, "Capital Income Taxes: A Bad Idea," The Region Dec 1999
• Richard Fisher & W. Michael Cox, "Globalizing good government," NYT April 10, 2006
• Jeff Flake, "Earmarked men," February 9, 2006
• Jeff Flake, "Earmarked men," NYT Feb 9, 2006
• "Flat income taxes," The Economist September 10, 2005
• Thomas Frank, "Get Rich or get Out: Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget," Harpers June 2003  (alternative)
• Thomas Frank, "What is K Street's Project?," NYT Aug 19, 2006
• Thomas Friedman, "Singapore and Katrina," NYT September 14, 2005
• Thomas Friedman, "State of the Union," NYT january 27, 2006
• Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer. "The invisible hand and the grabbing hand." AER May 1996
• James Galbraith, "Breaking out of the deficit trap," Public Policy Brief, Levy Economics Institute 2005
• Thomas Garrett & Russel Rhine, "On the size and growth of government," St.L Review J/F 2006
• Alan Garner, Consumption Taxes: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues, KCFED Review 2005 II
• "Georgia's New Poll Tax," NYT Sept. 12, 2005
• Robert Gordon, "Does the New Economy Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? April 2000 Draft of Paper for Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors, Brookings Institution
• Graetz, "Tax reform unraveling," JEP Winter 2007
• Bob Hebert, "The machete budget," NYT 1/2/2006
• Bob Herbert, "Our Crumbling Foundation," NYT April 5, 2006
• Bob Herbert, "George Bush's trillion dollar war," NYT March 23, 2006
• James Hines, "Taxing consumption and other sins," JEP Winter 2007
• Kevin L. Kliesen, The Return of Big Government The Regional Economist January 2003
• Howard Husock, "Privatize the welfare state," WSJ March 9, 2006
• Robert P Inman and Daniel Rubenfeld. "Rethinking federalism." JEP. Fall 1997
• David Cay Johnston, "IRS to cut tax auditors," NYT July 23, 2006
• Nicholas Kristof, "Mike Hugabee lost 110 pounds. Ask him how," NYT January 29, 2006
• Karen Kornbluh, "The Parent Trap," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2003
• Alan Krueger, "Connecting the dots from tax cuts for the wealthy to loss of benefits," NYT 
• Paul Krugman, "Bush's class-war budget," NYT February 11, 2005
• Paul Krugman, "Outsourcer in chief," NYT Dec 11, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "Tax cut zombies," NYT 12/23/2005
• Paul Krugman, "The vanishing future," NYT February 10, 2006
• Nicholas Kulish, "Things falling apart: fixing America's crumbling infrastructure," NYT 8/23/2006
• Joshua Kurlantzik, "Condemntaion Nation: The big business of eminent domain," Harpers 10/2005
• Lewis Lapham, "The simple life, Harper N/D 2005
• Lewis Lapham, "Slum clearance," Harpers November 2005
• Eric Lipton, "Billions later, plan to remake the Coast Guard fleet stumble," NYT Dec 9, 2006
• Maya MacGuineas, "Radical Tax Reform," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
• Peter Peterson, "Facing Up," The Atlantic Monthly October 1993
• Piketty & Saez, "How progressive is the US federal tax system? A historical and international perspective," JEP Winter 2007
• Daniel Pink, "Givers and Takers," NYT january 30, 2004
• Prescott, "Why do Americans work so much more than Europeans?, Minn Fed Quarterly Review, July 2004
• Eleanor Randolph, "The big, fat American kid crisis...And 10 10 tings we should do about them," NYT May 10, 2006
• Frank Rich, "Bring back Warren Harding," NYT Septermber 25, 2005
• Alice Rivlin, "Challenges of Modern Capitalism," Regional Review 2002:3
• David Rosenbaum, "Tax panel says popular breaks should be cut," NYT October 12, 2005
• Francine Russo, "Can government prevent divorce?," The Atlantic October 1997
• Ken Silverstein, "The Great American Pork Barrel," Harpers July 2005
• "Simplifying tax systems," The Economist April 16, 2005
• Rebecca Solnit, "The uses of disaster," Harpers October 2005
• Joseph Stiglitz, "Progressive Dementia," The Atlantic monthly November 2005
• Symposium "Devolution: The New Federalism: Proceedings of a Colloquium," NE Economic Review M/J 1998
• "The $91 billion conversation," Fortune Oct 31, 2005
• "The flat-tax revolution," The Economist April 16, 2005
• "The impact of central Europe's tax revolution," The Economist March 5, 2005
• "The new paternalism," The Economist April 18, 2006
• John Tierney, " The solve-everything tax," NYT October 4, 2005
• Teresa Tritch, "Talking Points: Tilting the tax system in favor of the rich," NYT
• Louis Uchitelle, "Disasters waiting to happen," NYT September 11, 2005
• John Joseph Wallis, "American government finance in he long run: 1790-1990," JEP Winter 2000
• Steven Weisman, "Fed chief warns that entitlement growth could harm economy," NYT jan 19, 2007