In Why Can’t America Be Sweden?, Thomas Edsall points to a growing debate in economics: If some countries can have strong growth while also having strong supports for workers and their families, why can’t all countries grow that way? In the post, he focuses on a working paper by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors, James A. […]

My colleague Michael Linden put out a new report this week where he makes the case that we need “reset” our national budget debate. That’s a good idea. I want to point readers to the conclusions Michael lists on the pain that austerity has caused in the US and abroad: The key argument that high […]