The way the government buys can push industry ahead.
Economic Policy
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Pork Barrel Objection
It’s a problem, but there are ways to minimize it.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Faster Track: Should We Build a High-Speed Rail System?
A solution to traffic jams breaks the investment jam.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Way We Won: America’s Economic Breakthrough During World War II
High growth needn’t require a war.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Moral Equivalent of War Production
Restoration of robust growth is the paramount challenge facing the nation, the most significant issue of the 1992 election, and the first task that will face a new administration. Indeed, all other important public questions are being held hostage to a sick economy that depresses aspiration, increases unemployment, de pletes revenue, and makes public remediation […]
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Life After Tight Money
The conservative experiment with tight money has failed. Popular monetary prescriptions—low interest rates and a more accountable Federal Reserve—are steps in the right direction. But they must go hand in hand with structural reforms to get the econo
Posted inEconomic Policy
Liberalism, Socialism, and Democracy
What, if anything, can be usefully salvaged from the socialist tradition, now that communism lies in final disgrace? Paul Starr argued in these pages last fall that four developments — the implosion of communism, the collapse of efforts to reform communism from within, the failure of socialism in the Third World, and the shift of […]