New Orleans Inflation is scary to people, especially if you are now living in Argentina or Venezuela, where prices are rising in double digits on a regular basis. In the United States, it’s a mixed bag, depending on where you stand, and who you believe. There’s no question that prices are currently going up, partly because of …
Category: Economics
Benefits and Informal Workers
New Orleans For years, I have harped on the need to make “maximum feasible participation” an emphasis on delivery of all governmental benefit programs. The pandemic has heightened visibility of the gap between eligibility in target populations and distribution of approved and legislated benefits to the populations. In the United States, we see …
Minimum Wages and Job Loss
New Orleans Well, well, David Card, Professor of Economics at Berkeley, won a share of the Nobel Prize for work he did with the late Alan Kruger, on the minimum wage. The Nobel folks talk about all three US-based economists as part of the same tribe, because they demonstrated a different way to …