Economic Policy

J. L. Jahn, J. T. Chen, M. Agénor, and N. Krieger. Social Science & Medicine. vol. 250. 2020.

In this commentary, Stone Center faculty — Miles Corak, Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, Leslie McCall, Branko Milanovic, and Salvatore Morelli — each with unique expertise in the study of inequality, offer insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

In an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, Miles Corak discusses the role of government during the COVID-19 crisis and says we should always be investing and innovating in public service delivery.

R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 13. 2020.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic says advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure.

P. Segal. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 12. 2020.

B. Petrova. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 51, no. 1. pp. 374–393. 2020.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 07. 2020.

P. Krugman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2020.

In his New York Times newsletter, Paul Krugman discusses the political debate over who should and who shouldn’t receive government aid.