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Economics

Getting Off Track by John B. Taylor

Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF WHAT WENT WRONG Throughout history, financial c...

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Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter E. Wi...

Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as ...

From: HooverInstitution

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The Flat Tax, by Robert E. Hall & Alvin Rabushka

First proposed twenty-five years ago, the flat tax concept has since been adopted by six states—Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and several countrie...

From: HooverInstitution

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Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them, edited by Scott, Shultz, and Taylor

The American people are clearly upset about the massive government bailouts of faltering organizations and the consequent commitment of taxpayer dollars—as well as the heavy involvement o...

From: HooverInstitution

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Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets, by Walter B. Wriston

The Internet has changed everything. It is altering the way institutions, both public and private, are managed, and the way individuals react to one another, their workplace, and their go...

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The Road Ahead for the Fed, edited by John D. Ciorciari and John B. Taylor

The Federal Reserve is the single most important economic policy institution in the United States. Its recent unprecedented actions and interventions have raised serious concerns in many ...

From: HooverInstitution

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Reacting to the Spending Spree, by T. Anderson & R. Sousa ed.

Few doubt the seriousness of the recent crisis afflicting the financial systems of the United States and the world, and still fewer claim that nothing needs to be fixed. But many of the r...

From: HooverInstitution

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