…and tooting my own horn, but I think our book can make a contribution to the discourse. Not only do we make a systematic effort to point out graphically what…

by Bruce Webb In 2003 CBO published an Issue Brief illustrating the relative contribution of Aging and Real Benefit Growth to future Social Security spending called The Future Growth of…

…house cleaning, shopping and related tasks, making a substantial contribution to family living standards. Women’s productivity per hour in unpaid work almost certainly varied less than their market earnings, suggesting…

…the objective is to reduce public deficits, for whatever reason, then a large contribution from private credit is essential. One more time: without private credit, deficit reduction plans through fiscal…

There was an interesting blog post over at the Macroblog (Atlanta Fed) regarding productivity. John Robertson and Pedro Silos highlight the contributions to GDP growth from various factors, including productivity…

…and Hours of Work: Their Contribution to Past Growth and a Projection of the Future” in The Sources of Economic Growth, 1962. In the early 1960s, Edward Denison, the founder…

…of partnership income and gains rather than being treated as getting compensation for services taxable at ordinary rates, even though that partner has made no contribution to capital on which…

…we finally get a chart illustrating the contribution to GDP from government spending. And then, I knew it was coming, a chart about the US public debt to GDP. It’s…

…latest retail sales figures reveal two bits of information worth noting. First, autos were a big factor in the March 2010 surge. Second, even though the large contribution from motor…

The New York Times notes the passing of an important man: Mr. Gates knew what many had forgotten: that Dr. Roberts had made an early and enduring contribution to modern…