“Recommendations for Further Reading,” Journal of Economic Perspectives. A regular column, eight pages in length and containing 25-30 recommended articles, reports or interviews, that I have been writing for this quarterly journal since the Spring 2005 issue.

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Principles of Economics: Economics and the Economy. Freeload Press, Inc.: St. Paul, Minnesota and Madison, Wisconsin. Published Fall 2007. Introductory economics textbook, together with student workbook, both available as free downloads from www.freeloadpress.com. A test bank is also available for instructors.

“Second Thoughts: Bush's Budgets,” Milken Institute Review, First Quarter 2007, pp. 77-80. Available at www.milkeninstitute.org.

“Medicare: Apocalypse … Later,” Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter 2005, pp. 42-47. Available at www.milkeninstitute.org.

“In Defense of Outsourcing,” Cato Journal, Spring/Summer 2005, 25:2, pp. 367-377. Available at www.cato.org/pubs/journal.

“Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions About the Social Security Trust Fund,” co-authored with James R. Hines Jr., Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2005, 19:2, pp. 3-9. Download article (PDF)

“The Economy in Perspective,” The Public Interest, Fall 2004, pp. 85-99. Download article (PDF)

“Dumping the Lump: A Century of Misunderstanding,” Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter 2004, pp. 82-87. Available at www.milkeninstitute.org.

“The Truth about Globalization,” The Public Interest, Spring 2002, pp. 24-44. Reprinted in Harf, James E. and Mark Owen Lombardi. 2005. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Global Issues. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, Dubuque, Iowa. pp. 208-216.Download article (PDF)

“Trends: Private Retirement Accounts,” Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2001, pp. 8-15. Available at www.milkeninstitute.org.

“Thinking about a ‘New Economy,’” The Public Interest, Spring 2001, pp. 3-19. Download article (PDF)

Updating America's Social Contract: Economic Growth and Opportunity in the New Century, co-authored with Rudolph G. Penner and Isabel V. Sawhill. W.W. Norton: New York, March 2000. 180 pp.

“An Interview with Zvi Griliches,” co-authored with Alan B. Krueger. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2000, 14:2, pp. 171-189.

“Clintonomics: A Report Card,” Milken Institute Review, First Quarter 2000, pp. 49-56. Available at www.milkeninstitute.org.

“Fixing Social Security,” The Public Interest, Spring 1999, pp. 129-132. Book review of Privatizing Social Security, a collection of essays edited by Martin Feldstein. Download article (PDF)

“Untangling the Trade Deficit,” The Public Interest, Winter 1999, pp. 82-104. Download article (PDF)

“Overview,” in Individual and Social Responsibility, a collection of essays edited by Victor R. Fuchs.  University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 13-32.

“Introduction,” in The Mosaic of Economic Growth, a collection of essays co-edited with Ralph Landau and Gavin Wright. Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 1-18.

“Introduction,” in Values and Public Policy, a collection of essays co-edited with Henry J. Aaron and Thomas E. Mann.  Brookings Institution, 1994, pp. 1-15. 

Newspaper columnist for the “Commentary” page of the San Jose Mercury News from 1989 to 1997, writing about 35 articles each year, mainly on economics topics. Many columns disseminated nationally over the Knight-Ridder-Tribune wire.

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