For the second time in two weeks, President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States is a leader on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. He said this first at the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, and again Monday at the White House in remarks about his environmental record. It’s worth understanding this fatuous claim,

Many of the economic policies being pitched by Democratic presidential candidates are rooted in the ideas pioneered by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who teaches at Columbia University.

New York, NY  – Lorenzo Pessina, a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics, has been awarded the Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation.  The project will help quantify the benefits and costs of tax incentives offered to attract high income individuals.  The results will help inform policy debates

“Only a fool would trust Facebook with his or her financial wellbeing. But maybe that’s the point: with so much personal data on some 2.4 billion monthly active users, who knows better than Facebook just how many suckers are born every minute?” – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, University

“As the Democratic candidates for president continue to roll out policy positions, many pundits are classifying them as centrists (such as former Vice President Joe Biden) and radicals (such as Senator Bernie Sanders and a few others). But let’s not confuse semantics and substance. Voters want and need a different

New York, NY  – Cameron La Point, a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Columbia University Economics Department, has been awarded the C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship. The Lincoln Institute’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program supports Ph.D. students researching land and tax policy issues. This program honors Professor Harriss

Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. They are right. They use the term “New Deal” to evoke the massive response by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the

Economist Jeffrey Sachs, who is a professor of sustainable development at Columbia University, said the principal causes of the economic free-fall in Venezuela were both economic mismanagement and U.S. sanctions. … “The economy was already gravely imbalanced before August 2017, but the sanctions threw Venezuela to hyperinflation and catastrophe,” he said.