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  • Harvard Economics Professor Calls Stimulus “Terrible Piece of Legislation”

    10/17/2009 3:33:57 PM PDT · by Son House · 30 replies · 1,719+ views
    The Tax Foundation ^ | FEBRUARY 19, 2009 | Tax Foundation
    Robert Barro, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, criticizes the recently passed federal stimulus package as a "terrible piece of legislation," and calls for permanent changes to the tax structure to spur economic growth. In a discussion with Tax Foundation Vice President for Economic Policy Robert Carroll in this week's edition of the Tax Policy Podcast, Barro strongly disapproves of both the expenditure and tax provisions within the stimulus legislation. "What they call tax reductions in this bill are really transfer payments, particularly redistribution of income from the rich to the poor," says Barro. "I don't think it's really attractive...
  • Harvard Economist Robert Barro Interviewed by the Atlantic

    02/11/2009 4:41:18 PM PST · by Wpin · 3 replies · 419+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/11/2009 | N/A
    Harvard economist Robert Barro being interviewed by the Atlantic: Atlantic: And I take it from the Wall Street Journal piece you wrote last week . . . well, the piece is just specifically about measuring multipliers, but I take it that you are fairly skeptical in general that fiscal policy will boost aggregate demand. Barro: Right. There's a big difference between tax rate changes and things that look just like throwing money at people. Tax rate changes have actual incentive effects. And we have some experience with those actually working. Atlantic: What would you say is the best empirical evidence...
  • Economists Are Getting Religion (Or, "How to buy off terrorists")

    12/01/2004 11:15:38 AM PST · by LouAvul · 5 replies · 423+ views
    yahoo ^ | 12-1-04
    .......snip............. The economics of religion is founded on the belief that people are just as rational in their choices about religion as they are about, say, buying a car. ............... The idea that religion involves rational choices extends even to suicide bombers who strike in the name of God. Studies show they are far from depressed loners or brainwashed robots. Instead, says Eli Berman, an associate professor of economics at the University of California at San Diego, suicide bombers typically are motivated young men -- and, rarely, women -- from average backgrounds. ..................... How should the West fight such terrorism?...