Edward Glaeser
Obama’s welfare state needs Republican guardians
For most of the past century, the United States and continental Europe have followed different paths. Social Democrats often ran European governments, which typically...
Education key for long-term solution to unemployment
The most recent state-level employment figures remind us that this economic recovery, like the recession that preceded it, is astonishingly uneven across the United...
Protesters ignore American love of entrepreneurs
America’s love affair with entrepreneurship complicates any attempt by the Occupy Wall Street movement to mount an effective European-style war of have-nots against haves....
Republicans must embrace education, not tax cuts
The Republican presidential debates have been replete with discussions about our economic future, but to listen to the candidates you’d think that the biggest...
Keep payroll tax cuts, pare the rest of stimulus plan
In response to our sputtering economy, President Barack Obama presented a new stimulus package recently, hopefully titled the American Jobs Act.
More than half...
How to make states’ public-pension funds solvent
Recently, Atlanta’s City Council voted unanimously to address a $1.5 billion public-pension liability by increasing worker contributions and reducing benefits. Florida also increased public-worker...
Housing market has persistent case of the blahs: Edward Glaeser
The seasonally adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller index of housing prices in 20 cities has now fallen for nine consecutive months, but before we get all hot...
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