Items by By TYLER COWEN
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Economic View: Economic View: Forget Europe. Worry About India.
Posted: May 6th, 2012, 12:10am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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India’s growth is slowing and uneven, it is a difficult place to do business and it is risking another generation of millions of poor people as it fails to enact market reforms.
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Economic View: The Bank Run, Updated
Posted: March 25th, 2012, 1:28am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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It now seems that the 21st century will resemble the 19th and early 20th centuries, with periodic panics and runs on financial institutions — but in a redefined form.
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Economic View: Making Shareholders Liable for Big Banks - Economic View
Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:53pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Expanding the liability of shareholders in financial institutions now deemed “too big to fail” may be a better solution than splitting up the companies.
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Economic View: Fed’s Moves Offer a Shield Against Europe — Economic View
Posted: December 24th, 2011, 5:23pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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The Federal Reserve’s policy moves will help the United States weather any ill winds from the euro crisis, Tyler Cowen says.
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Economic View: Choices for Greece, All of Them Daunting
Posted: July 10th, 2011, 12:56am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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Solving the Greek debt crisis will require extremely tough decisions and compromises — both for Greece and the European Union.
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Economic View: Innovation Is Doing Little for Incomes
Posted: January 30th, 2011, 2:00am EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Today’s most important technical advances have failed to bolster median incomes, suggesting that Americans may have to learn to live with less.
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Economic View: Following the Money, Doctors Ration Care
Posted: December 12th, 2010, 1:17am EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Doctors are already rationing health care and are likely to further discriminate based on whether a patient has private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.
NYT > Health
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Economic View: Following the Money, Doctors Ration Care
Posted: December 12th, 2010, 1:17am EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Doctors are already rationing health care and are likely to further discriminate based on whether a patient has private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.
NYT > Business
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Economic View: How Immigrants Create More Jobs
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 1:58pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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Evidence is growing that immigration encourages more business activity.
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Economic View: Can the Fed Offer a Reason to Cheer?
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 2:00am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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A lack of optimism — and, even worse, a lack of trust — are helping to keep the United States economy stalled.
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Economic View: Why Free Parking Comes at a Price
Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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Many people see a free parking space as an entitlement, but an author argues that it’s a subsidy that wastes space and money.
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Economic View: What Germany Has Learned About Debt
Posted: July 17th, 2010, 4:47pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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In Berlin, long-term fiscal caution may be a result of its 20th-century history — which taught that the government can’t rely on the future to pay its bills.
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Economic View: The Pendulum Swings Toward Austerity
Posted: June 26th, 2010, 4:11pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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Despite contentions that America is on the road to socialism, the expansionary phase of big government is in many respects coming to an end, and quickly.
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Economic View: Greece May Not Be as Rich as It Looks
Posted: May 22nd, 2010, 6:18pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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Europe no longer pretends Greece is wealthy. Now the Continent acts as though Greece will quickly become wealthy enough to pay back ever-growing sums of debt.
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Economic View: Can’t Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe
Posted: April 17th, 2010, 3:49pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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By reducing spending when necessary, other developed countries offer an example to the United States, Tyler Cowen says.
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Economic View: Managed Care: Get Used to It
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 6:17pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Like it or not, more cost control looks likely to flourish in any health plan, Tyler Cowen says.
NYT > Health
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Economic View: Managed Care: Get Used to It
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 6:17pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Like it or not, more cost control looks likely to flourish in any health plan, Tyler Cowen says.
NYT > Business
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Economic View: Why Politics Is Stuck in the Middle
Posted: February 6th, 2010, 10:41pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Economists view politics through the ”median voter theorem,” which holds that candidates can’t stray far from the center if they want to be elected.
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Economic View: Fruitful Decade for Many in the World
Posted: January 2nd, 2010, 3:16pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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For China, India, Indonesia and Brazil, which have more than 40 percent of the world’s people, the decade was one of solid economic growth.
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Economic View: Dangers of an Overheated China
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 3:50pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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How growing overcapacity in the Chinese economy is a risk to its economic growth and its ability to continue to fund deficits in the United States.
NYT > Health
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Economic View: How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off
Posted: October 25th, 2009, 4:13am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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How government-mandated health insurance could be detrimental to many people it was intended to help.
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Economic View: Where Politics Don’t Belong
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 11:43pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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The regulatory approach that exacerbated the financial crisis — playing favorites — is being repeated on a larger scale with health care.
NYT > Business
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Economic View: Where Politics Don’t Belong
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 4:00pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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The regulatory approach that exacerbated the financial crisis — playing favorites — is being repeated on a larger scale with health care.
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Economic View: How a Little Inflation Could Help a Lot
Posted: August 1st, 2009, 5:30pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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According to one argument, the Federal Reserve could help stir a recovery by encouraging slightly higher prices.
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Economic View: Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 4:35pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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By taking seriously the results of studies on drugs and procedures, drastic cuts could be made, but Americans have been reluctant to do so.
NYT > Health
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Economic View: Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 4:35pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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By taking seriously the results of studies on drugs and procedures, drastic cuts could be made, but Americans have been reluctant to do so.
NYT > Business
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Economic View: Why Creditors Should Suffer, Too
Posted: April 4th, 2009, 11:38pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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If we are going to prevent an A.I.G.-like debacle from happening again, institutions that engaged in bad deals need incentives to be more wary of their trading partners.
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Economic View: Recession Can Change a Way of Life
Posted: January 31st, 2009, 4:33pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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Something terrible has happened in the U.S. economy. But a deeper look at the downturn, and the social changes it is bringing, shows a more complex picture.
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Economic View: Bailout of Long-Term Capital: A Bad Precedent?
Posted: December 27th, 2008, 2:51pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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The 1998 bailout of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund hasn’t received enough attention.
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Economic View: The New Deal Didn’t Always Work, Either
Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 4:26pm EST by By TYLER COWEN
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The truth is that President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed course from year to year, trying a mix of policies, some good and some bad.
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Economic View: Three Trends and a Train Wreck
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 4:17pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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The current financial crisis comes from a conjunction of three major trends, common to many countries and to a wide variety of financial institutions.
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Economic View: Too Few Regulations? No, Just Ineffective Ones
Posted: September 14th, 2008, 1:20am EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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When it comes to financial regulation, until the crisis of the last few months, the Bush administration did little to alter a regulatory structure that was built over many decades.
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Economic View: Means Testing, for Medicare
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:14pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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No matter who sits in the Oval Office next year, there won’t be many degrees of freedom in the federal budget. The main problem: Medicare.
NYT > Health
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Economic View: Means Testing, for Medicare
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:14pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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No matter who sits in the Oval Office next year, there won’t be many degrees of freedom in the federal budget. The main problem: Medicare.
NYT > Business
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Economic View: This Global Show Must Go On
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 10:53pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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The enormous advances linked to increased global trade show that the backlash against globalization is not warranted.
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Economic View: Freer Trade Could Fill the World’s Rice Bowl
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 11:34pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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The damage that trade restrictions cause is probably most evident in the case of rice, which is the major foodstuff for about half of the world, but is highly regulated.