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Economic Policy
Focal points for economic policy expertise at Washington University include the departments of economics and political science in Arts & Sciences and various interdisciplinary research centers, including the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, the Center for Research in Economics and Strategy, the Center for Political Economy, the Center for Social Development and the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences.
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Sebastian Galiani
Associate Professor of Economics
Direct contact: (314) 935-9278
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galiani@wustl.edu
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Gerrit De Geest
Professor of Law
De Geest specializes in comparative law and in law and economics. As a member of the European Group on an Integrated Contract Law and of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law, De Geest has delved extensively into these issues and has served as the president of ...
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degeest@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Cheryl Block
Professor of Law
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Cheryl Block is an expert in tax law and policy. Author of a leading book on corporate taxation, she has also written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, federal budget process, and the interplay between tax and ...
Expertise: federal budget, tax law and policy, corporate taxation, federal bailouts
Direct contact: (314) 935-6444
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cblock@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Carolyn Lesorogol
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Carolyn Lesorogol's main interests are in international social development and the dynamics of social change processes. She has studied these issues among African pastoralists in Kenya where she has conducted long term fieldwork examining the political and economic processes resulting in privatization ...
Expertise: international social development, capacity building and participatory development, institutional change, political economy, ethnographic research
Direct contact: (314) 935-8232
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clesorogol@wustl.edu
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Robert A. Pollak
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business
Pollack specializes primarily in economics and demography. His research interests include economics of the family, price and cost-of-living indexes, and environmental policy. He is the author of three books and more than 70 articles and serves on the editorial boards for a number of economic journals. ...
Expertise: business and government, environmental economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, law and economics, political economy, public affairs, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4918
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pollak@wustl.edu
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Research boon
Washington University awarded $80 million in stimulus grants
Nov. 9,
2009 -- Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Re-investment Act to support research across a broad range of projects, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, renewable energy, diabetes and climate change.
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Holiday cheer or holiday hunger?
Nearly half of all U.S. children will use food stamps, says poverty expert
Nov. 2,
2009 -- Holidays and tables full of delicious food usually go hand in hand, but for nearly half of the children in the United States, this is not guaranteed. "49 percent of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood," says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. "Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food insecurity, two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health." Rank's study, "Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood," is published in the current issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Video available.
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Major milestone in the health care debate
Expert discusses the next steps for health care reform in the U.S.
Oct. 16,
2009 -- With health care legislation now up for debate in both the House and the Senate, comprehensive health care reform is closer than ever, says Timothy McBride, Ph.D., health economist and associate dean of public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. McBride says that there is still much work to be done with health care reform and contentious issues remain. Among those are the public option, how the legislation will be financed, the generosity of the coverage, Medicare Advantage reforms and whether there will be mandates for employers to offer coverage. (Video available)
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U.S. Census Bureau data on the medically uninsured simply can't be denied
Los Angeles Times
Sept. 17,
2009 -- Michael Hiltzik says the medically uninsured iin America have become a political football. Opponents and supporters of healthcare reform toss assertions about them back and forth.
The report, which says 46.3 million people lacked coverage as of the end of 2008, makes the case for reform stronger than ever by punching holes in arguments that minimize the plight of the uninsured.
Includes comments by WUSTL social work and public health professor Timothy McBride.
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Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!
Huffingtonpost.com
Sept. 16,
2009 -- WUSTL economics professor David Levine says abolishing 'intellectual property' won't solve all social ills, but it would be a big step in the right direction for solving a range of problems from the high cost of health care, to innovating our way out of the current recession. In a series of posts with his co-author, WUSTL economics professor Michele Boldrin, they will be posting here about green technology, entertainment, free speech, multinationals, and innovation over the next weeks.
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Why capitalism fails
The Boston Globe
Sept. 15,
2009 -- U. of Georgia historian Stephen Mihm writes about the late WUSTL economist Hyman Minsky, who "has begun emerging as perhaps the most prescient big-picture thinker about what, exactly, we are going through. A contrarian amid the conformity of postwar America, an expert in the then-unfashionable subfields of finance and crisis, Minsky was one economist who saw what was coming. He predicted, decades ago, almost exactly the kind of meltdown that recently hammered the global economy. "
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Elusive price tag for universal health coverage
MSNBC.com
Sept. 10,
2009 -- How much is it going to cost to provide health care for all Americans? Until the details are complete, the only honest answer is: no one knows, reports John Schoen. "We know that the underinsured tend to be healthier," said Timothy McBride, associate dean for WUSTL's public health. "So if they were to get insured they would not be as expensive as the rest of us."
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Should states' rights trump the fed?
CNN American Morning
July 31,
2009 -- Should states' rights trump the fed? It seems to be a trend across the country. At least 20 states have introduced resolutions reasserting states' rights because they think that federal government is way too involved in what states do with things like taxes and health care and education. WUSTL law professor David Law comments.
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The Princeton Review gives 623 colleges financial aid ratings
The Princeton Review
July 28,
2009 -- The Princeton Review -- an education services company that helps students choose and get in to colleges -- this year collected a wealth of data to help applicants and parents find the highly-coveted financial aid that a majority of them will need to pay for college. WUSTL was among 13 of which received the highest possible score of 99.
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Union boss returns some of $1.2 million pay
The Washington Times
May 12,
2009 -- Controversy over compensation received by the president of the shipyard workers union, much of which was returned after it was disclosed to the government. Several labor analysts expressed concern about the union's pay practices and the changes it made in its financial reports. Labor consultant and WUSTL law professor emeritus Neil Bernstein comments.
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Justices Limit Use of Identity Theft Law in Immigration Cases
The New York Times
and 3 others
May 5,
2009 -- The Supreme Court rejected a favorite tool of prosecutors in immigration cases, ruling unanimously that a federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs. WUSTL immigration law professor Stephen Legomsky comments.
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Flu control tests Obama balancing skills
Associated Press
and 47 others
May 4,
2009 -- When it comes to swine flu, Obama is trying to strike the right balance between protecting public and economic health. That's resulted in some doublespeak and spin, evidence of the inextricable ties between a looming epidemic and a listing economy. Includes comments by WUSTL American culture studies director Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric.
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Obama takes more questions than Bush
The Washington Times
April 28,
2009 -- President Obama has gotten off to a busy start, fielding more questions in formal press conferences in his first months in office than the American people saw from his predecessor. WUSTL history professor Peter Kastor comments.
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States rebel against Washington
The Christian Science Monitor
March 27,
2009 -- Just as California under President Bush asserted itself on issues ranging from gun control to medical marijuana, a motley cohort of states — from South Carolina to New Hampshire — are presenting a foil for President Obama's national ambitions. WUSTL political science professor Steve Smith, who is director of WUSTL's Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, comments.
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Break It to 'Em Gently: Telling Kids About Financial Woes
The Wall Street Journal
March 25,
2009 -- Advice for parents explaining to children what changes may need to take place when a family faces economic hardship. WUSTL senior consultant and author Karen Levin Coburn.
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More companies turn to furloughs to save money, jobs
USA Today
and 1 others
March 5,
2009 -- To curtail costs while avoiding the strain of layoffs, companies, colleges and state governments are mandating temporary hiatuses, commonly known as furloughs. WUSTL employment and labor law professor Marion Crain comments.
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Get ready for a wave of bank failures
CNNMoney.com
Feb. 23,
2009 -- In less than two months, regulators have seized 14 banks. Experts think many more banks will collapse before the financial crisis is over. "We'll have a banner year [of failures] this year," said Stuart Greenbaum, retired dean and professor emeritus at the WUSTL's Olin Business School.
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Stimulus fight gives Obama lessons early
USA Today
and 1 others
Feb. 12,
2009 -- WUSTL political science professor Steve Smith comments on some lessons learned by Obama and his team in the push for the stimulus bill.
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Who Gets What: Billions to colleges and students
Associated Press
and 56 others
Feb. 9,
2009 -- The stimulus plan emerging in Washington could offer an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar boost in financial help for college students. Both the House and Senate bills call for the largest-ever funding increase for Pell Grants, the government's chief college aid program for low-income students. It could also hand out billions to the states to kick-start idled campus construction projects, including new dorms at WUSTL.
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Financial Aid Applications Rise by 10 Percent
U.S. News & World Report online
Jan. 14,
2009 -- Like a tornado, the economic downturn appears to be touching down and wreaking financial aid havoc for some colleges while leaving others unscathed. Financial aid officers at Boston College and Washington University in St. Louis report no dramatic increase in requests for scholarships.
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SPIN METER: Obama stresses dire economy at start
Associated Press
and 32 others
Jan. 14,
2009 -- In hard times, the man in the Oval Office usually is the cheerleader-in-chief, looking ahead optimistically. Not Barack Obama, who is taking office full of gloom and doom about the nation's economy, warning that things are dire and bound to get worse. WUSTL American culture studies director and political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields comments.
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Business welcomes talk of tax breaks in stimulus
TheHill.com (DC) online
Jan. 7,
2009 -- The news that President-elect Obama may include more than $300 billion in tax cuts as part of an economic recovery package was preceded by a lobbying push by businesses, which argued that providing tax relief may be a better way of reviving the economy than simply directing money to pay for road and bridge construction. Includes comments by WUSTL economics professor Steven Fazzari.
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Economists Duke It Out over Stimulus Plan
NPR Morning Edition
Jan. 5,
2009 -- Experts disagree on how to fix the economy. Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are assembling a huge plan to stimulate the economy. Some experts doubt this is a good idea. David Kestenbaum talks with some experts, including WUSTL economics professor Steve Fazzari.
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