Regulation can have unintended consequences. With football helmets or seat belts or even financial regulation, protection can create more reckless behavior.
India’s Height Mystery
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
What Bread Says About Women
Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.
Why the Social Security Crisis Has Begun
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
The Dangerous Side of Economics
Because he revised his country’s inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece’s chief statistician might be prosecuted for “breach of faith.”
Six Ways to Make Government Better
One of many examples in Peter Schuck’s new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it “fails so often.”
The Vaccine Benefits That No One Talks About
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.
Part 2: What To Do When More People Are Old
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
Part 1: What To Do When More People Are Old
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.
Pondering the Bunker Hill Theory of Inflation
As the source of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has to decide if interest rates should rise when inflation is low but a jobs recovery has begun.