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Timothy Taylor

@TimothyTTaylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Conversable Economist

 Minnesota
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Joined October 2012
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"Can Government Support for Innovation Create the Next Silicon Valley?" by E. Jason Baron, Shawn Kantor, and Alexander Whalley, in the Fall 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. From the abstract:
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Cities of Africa: Explosive Growth, Corresponding Challenges conversableeconomist.com/202…
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What's a bootstrap regression? Why use it? Why a Bayesian bootstrap? What other choices are there? For an intuition-heavy overview, see "In Praise of the Bayesian Bootstrap," by Isaiah Andrews, Sarah Moon, and Jesse M. Shapiro in the Fall 2027 JEP aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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How Currencies Have Come and Gone: 1850-2026 conversableeconomist.com/202…
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Fall 2026 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online conversableeconomist.com/202…
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Social Security Reform Looms Ahead conversableeconomist.com/202…
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The Challenges of Laissez-Faire Democracy conversableeconomist.com/202…
The Challenges of Laissez-Faire Democracy - Conversable Economist

The Challenges of Laissez-Faire Democracy - Conversable Economist

Economists are frequently accused of being advocates for unfettered and unregulated laissez-faire markets, but anyone who has ever taken a basic introductory economics class knows that this caricat...

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“A Sick Society Must Think Much About Politics”: Election Day Thoughts from C.S. Lewis and Samuel Johnson conversableeconomist.com/202…
“A Sick Society Must Think Much About Politics”: Election Day Thoughts - Conversable Economist

“A Sick Society Must Think Much About Politics”: Election Day Thoughts - Conversable Economist

The US Democrats and Republicans, together with other political activity around the world, probably takes up too much space in my head. In 1945, C.S. Lewis gave a talk on "Membership," later publis...

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Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being: Election Day Thoughts. Reflections on thoughts from Alexis de Tocqueville. conversableeconomist.com/202…
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Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being: Election Day Thoughts - Conversable...

Alexis de Tocqueville came from France and traveled across the United States in 1831, and several years later published his reflections about Americans and America in the classic Democracy in...

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William Nordhaus has died news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/wil…
William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen

William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen

William Nordhaus ’63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85.

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Snapshots of the US Wealth Distribution conversableeconomist.com/202…
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A Primer on Health Care Systems Across Countries conversableeconomist.com/202…
A Primer on Health Care Systems Across Countries - Conversable Economist

A Primer on Health Care Systems Across Countries - Conversable Economist

Discussions with the US about the American health care system often counterpose the well-known issues of the US health care system (high costs, lack of health insurance, unequal access to care, lower...

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All About Tariffs: An Overview of a six-paper symposium in the Summer 2026 Journal of Economic Perspectives conversableeconomist.com/202…
All About Tariffs - Conversable Economist

All About Tariffs - Conversable Economist

I have made no secret of my deep skepticism about President Trump's tariff policies since he announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs in April 2025. My first-blink "Thoughts on the Trump Tariffs" from...

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AI in Development: World Development Report 2026 conversableeconomist.com/202…
AI in Development: World Development Report 2026 - Conversable Economist

AI in Development: World Development Report 2026 - Conversable Economist

For many low-income countries, perhaps the greatest deficit they face is a lack of the human skills that build economic growth. The new artificial intelligence tools improve access to a wide range...

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Financing the AI Physical Capital Buildout conversableeconomist.com/202…
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A Supply-Shock Era? conversableeconomist.com/202…
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A Supply-Shock Era? - Conversable Economist

Economists and policy-makers know, in a broad sense, how to respond to a negative shock to aggregate demand in an economy, like the financial meltdown leading to the Great Recession of 2007-09. The...

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Medicaid’s Expanding Enrollment conversableeconomist.com/202…
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How to Keep Global Agricultural Output Rising conversableeconomist.com/202…
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The Incoherence of the Trump Tariff Announcements conversableeconomist.com/202…
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The Nobel Prize to Hall and Woodford: A Macroeconomic Journey conversableeconomist.com/202…
The Nobel Prize to Hall and Woodford: A Macroeconomic Journey - Conversable Economist

The Nobel Prize to Hall and Woodford: A Macroeconomic Journey - Conversable Economist

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 has been awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “"for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisatio...

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