Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- Water, Water Roger Bate 05/24/2007
- It may be everywhere, but it’s scarce as well. How to use water most efficiently? Roger Bate finds the solution in a nation undergoing the worst drought in 1,000 years: Australia.
- German Growth Means a Chance for Reform Jurgen Reinhoudt 05/24/2007
- Center-right leader Angela Merkel is missing an opportunity. She should take a cue from her left-of-center predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, particularly on labor market reforms.
- Canada’s Problem: Domestic Trade Barriers Christopher Sands 05/22/2007
- Free trade among the fifty states may account for much of the U.S. productivity advantage over Canada.
- Carbon Taxes Versus Carbon Markets: What’s the Best Way to Limit Emissions? Ronald Bailey 05/18/2007
- Cap-and-trade markets have greater political momentum, but most economists favor a carbon tax. Here’s our guide to the debate.
- Q&A: Energy Independence Steven F. Hayward 05/17/2007
- ‘Energy independence’ may be a hollow slogan, but ‘energy security’ is something we can achieve. Separating fact from fantasy, Steven Hayward shows how.
- A Free-Market Outpost in the Midwest Alan D. Viard 05/17/2007
- A new book details the influential economists at the University of Chicago.
- The Grand Bipartisan Trade Deal Claude Barfield 05/16/2007
- What have Congress and the White House really agreed to on trade? It’s hard to say, judging from their widely differing views of last week’s deal.
- Socialism by Sanders John Santoliquido 05/16/2007
- A dead ideal haunts the halls of Congress.
- Does Economic Success Require Democracy? Kevin Hassett 05/10/2007
- Sadly, no. In fact, the politically unfree countries are enjoying more economic growth than the politically free ones. Kevin Hassett tells why.
- If We Exit Victor Davis Hanson 05/09/2007
- The costs, economic and otherwise, of staying in Iraq are terrible. The costs of leaving are much, much worse.