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Economic policy scholars

Kevin Hassett Director, Economic Policy Studies Tags: Tax and fiscal policy, US economy, stock market

 

Alex Brill Resident Fellow Tags: Health care/tax policy, US economy, retirement issues, Pharmaceutical industry, labor

 

Kevin Corinth Research Fellow, Economic Policy Studies Research areas: Poverty, Homelessness assistance program

 

Desmond Lachman Resident Fellow Research areas: Global macroeconomy, exchange rate policy, US housing market, central banking

 

Stephen Oliner Resident Scholar Research areas: US economy, Financial markets, Monetary policy, Real estate issues, Federal reserve

 

James Pethokoukis Editor, AEIdeas DeWitt Wallace Fellow Research areas: US economy, taxes

 

Michael R. Strain Deputy Director, Economic Policy Studies, Resident Scholar Topics: US economy, Labor economics, Federal budget

 

Stan A. Veuger Resident Scholar Research areas: Political economy, public finance, US and EU economics

 

Wendell L. Willkie II Visiting Fellow Research areas: Corporate governance, shareholder activism and engagement

 

Benjamin Zycher Resident Scholar Research areas: Energy and environmental policy

 

Andrew Biggs Resident Scholar Tags: Social security reform, public & private sector compensation, public pensions

 

Edward Conard Visiting Scholar Tags: US economy, business innovation, finance and startups

 

Matthew Jensen Managing Director, Open Source Policy Center Research areas: US economy, Tax policy, Tax and budget issues, Public finance

 

Aparna Mathur Resident Scholar Research areas: State health insurance, Environmental & corporate market outcomes

 

Mark J. Perry Scholar Research areas: Financial markets, US economics, Energy and innovation

 

Vincent Smith Visiting Scholar Research areas: International & domestic agricultural commodity policy

 

Phillip Swagel Visiting Scholar Research areas: Economics, Central banking

 

Alan Viard Resident Scholar Research areas: Federal tax and budget policy, corporate tax policy

 

Weifeng Zhong Research Fellow Research areas: Energy and environmental policy

Headlines and Highlights

An agreement to prop up the climate industry
Benjamin Zycher, US News & World Report
The Paris agreement is silly and destructive as a strategy to engender environmental improvement, but it works beautifully as a mechanism to transform the climate industry into a perpetual motion machine.

Capitalism under fire: What’s really driving income inequality? A Q&A with economist Steven Kaplan
James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas
Steven Kaplan: “My view of where the inequality has come from and where the bulk of it is, is that it has come [from] what you might call good capitalism, which is the technological change and globalization.”

The segregation we don’t talk about enough
Aparna Mathur, Forbes
For many American families, every step towards opportunity is fraught with obstacles.

Q&A: Falsified or substandard? Assessing price and non-price signals of drug quality
Desmond Lachman, The Hill
It takes many years for a country to build up market credibility, but it takes only moments to lose that credibility. South Africa is on the verge of losing this credibility and it might be wise for the country to turn to the IMF for support in its confidence rebuilding exercise.

It’s not just factory and back-office jobs with big automation potential
James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas
This is less about robots replacing workers than parts of jobs being automated.

A Social Security reform plan that can pass
Peter Wallison, AEIdeas 
Some regional Federal Reserve presidents are worried that low interest rates and investors’ search for yield have created a new bubble in commercial real estate that could affect financial system stability.  

The income gap keeps widening. Something’s not working.
Aparna Mathur, Aspen Institute
To prevent the persistence of poverty, focus not on equalizing incomes, but instead on equalizing opportunities.

 

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