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August 14, 2018
Economist Michael Carlos Best Leads Research on Jordan’s Taxation and Public Spending
Best will establish Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative funded by Columbia University
August 10, 2018
Ending Hyperinflation in Venezuela Is So Easy and So Hard
“You can’t work out crises like these with those culpable in power,” says Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist who helped Bolivia overcome hyper-inflation in the 1980s. (Sachs says his comments should not be construed as an endorsement of “U.S.-led regime change.”)
August 6, 2018
Medicare for All makes a lot of sense
The economics of Medicare for All championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders are actually quite straightforward. Under what advocates call "M4A," health care coverage would expand while total spending on health care -- by companies, individuals and the government -- would decline because of lower costs. More would be paid through the government and less through private insurers. … Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
August 2, 2018
United States: “We are far from the protectionist bidding of the 30s”
Economist Bernard Salanié, from Columbia University, reviews the Trump administration’s first commercial decisions as it looks to raise tariffs.
August 2, 2018
Our Mass Delusion of American Prosperity and National Well-Being is Killing U.S.
As Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University, recently wrote, our country is in the throes of three “interrelated epidemic diseases, notably obesity, substance abuse (especially opioid addiction) and depression.” In his chapter on America in the “The World Happiness Survey 2018,” Sachs writes “Indeed, while America’s income per capita has increased markedly during the past half-century, several […]
