Harvard University
George F. Baker Professor of Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research
President
Curriculum vita and list of academic publications
Short Biography
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Economic Research Papers
- "Rethinking Social Insurance" Presidential Address to American Economic Association, January 8, 2005.
(Full text as published in American Economic Review, March 2005)
Chinese translation as published in Journal of Comparative Economics, April 2006 - Research Papers on Social Insurance
- NBER Working Papers by Martin Feldstein
Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal
- Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts ,April, 2008
- How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis ,March, 2008
- Our Economic Dilemma,February, 2008
- How to Avert Recession ,December, 2007
- Social Security Compromise,October, 2007
- Liquidity Now!,September, 2007
- The Fed's Difficult Task , August, 2006
- Tradeable Gasoline Rights , June, 2006
- The Dollar at Home -- and Abroad , April, 2006
- There's More to Growth than China ..., February, 2006
- Raise Taxes on Savings? Tell Joe It Ain't So!, December 2005
- Saving Social Security, July 2005
- The $110,000 Question, September 1, 2004
- Fact vs. Fancy: The Skinny on Social Security, August 17, 2004
- Here Are the Facts, February 12, 2004
- Health and Taxes, January 19, 2004
- There's No Such Thing As a 'Jobless' Recovery, October 10, 2003
- Stimulate Now, March 4, 2003
- Argentina Doesn't Need the IMF, May 28, 2002
- Tax Cuts, Rate Cuts Put the Economy Back on Track, March 13, 2002
- Vouchers Can Free Us From Foreign Oil, December 27, 2001
- Don't Cut Taxes - Yet, September 28, 2001
- Democrats Play Politics With Social Security, August 2, 2001
- Japan Needs To Stimulate Spending, July 16, 2001
- The 28% Solution, February 16, 2001
- Archive of Wall Street Journal articles.
Other Recent Non-Technical Papers
- Misleading growth statistics give false comfort, The Financial Times, May 7,2008
- The dollar may be falling at just the right time, The Financial Times, March 28,2008
- The Declining Dollar , Project Syndicate, March 12,2008
- Testimony to Senate Finance Committee, January 24, 2008
- Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States, , Presented at the AEA meetings, January, 2008
- Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?, Presented at the AEA meetings, January, 2008
- Testimony to House Budget Committee, December 05, 2007
- A more competitive dollar is good for America, The Financial Times , October 15, 2007
- Housing, Housing Finance and Monetary Policy: , Remarks at the 2007 Jackson Hole conference of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, September,2007
- The Revolution in Economic Thinking and Practice:, Remarks at the Bradley Foundation Award Ceremony, May 3, 2007
- Why is the Dollar So High?, American Economic Association, April, 2007
- The Underfunded Pentagon, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007
- Balancing The Goals Of Health Care Provision And Financing, Health Affairs, November/December 2006 - Volume 25, Number 6
- Immigration is no way to fund an ageing population,The Financial Times, December 13,2006
- Remarks to Institute for Defense Analysis and at West Point, 2006
- The New Economic Geography: A Comment, remarks at the 2006 Jackson Hole conference of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, August 2006
- Europe has to face the threat of America's trade deficit , The Financial Times , August 2,2006
- Taxes on Investment Income Remain Too High and Lead to Multiple Distortions , The Economists' Voice, Vol. 3 (2006): Iss. 6, Article 5
- Falling Dollar Sets Test for Asia and Europe, Financial Times , May 26, 2006
- The Return of Saving, Foreign Affairs , May/June 2006
- What Remains of Keynes' Work in Today's Economics?, The Financial Times Deutschland , April 21,2006
- Central Banking: Is Science Replacing Art? Comments at European Central Bank conference in honor of Otmar Issing, March 17, 2006
- The Effect of Taxes on Efficiency and Growth, Tax Notes, May 8, 2006. (Remarks Presented at National Association for Business Economists, WDC , March 14, 2006)
- The Case for a Competetive Dollar, Remarks at the Annual SIEPR Summit, Stanford University, March 3, 2006
- America will fall harder if oil prices rise again,The Financial Times, February 2006
- Why Uncle Sam's bonanza might not be all that it seems, The Financial Times, January 2006
- The Euro and the Stability Pact, American Economic Association, January 2005
- Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy: Comments on Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, American Economic Association, January 2004
- Monetary Policy in an Uncertain Environment, In Monetary Policy and Uncertainty, 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole Conference Volume
- Fiscal Activism Would Speed a Recovery,The Financial Times, August 2003
- Accounting for Taxpayer Behavior, The Washington Post, April 2003
- Britain Must Avoid Germany's Mistake,The Financial Times, April 2003
- Banking, Budgets, and Pensions: Some Priorities for Chinese Policy, Presented at China Development Research Council Forum, March 2003
- Why is Productivity Growing Faster?, Presented at the AEA meetings, January 2003
- Reducing America's Dependence on Foreign Oil Supplies, Presented at the AEA meetings, January 2003
- Deflation,November 2002
- Milton Friedman and Public Sector Economics, November 2002
- A New Strategy for Social Security Investment in Latin America Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, October 2002
- Is There a Role for Discretionary Fiscal Policy? Jackson Hole Federal Reserve Bank Conference, August 2002
- Argentina's Fall: Lessons From the Latest Financial Crisis, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002
- Germany's Economic Ills, Essays in Honor of Horst Siebert, 2003
- The President's Tax Cut Proposal, Testimony to The Senate Budget Committee, February 13, 2001
- The President's Tax Cut Proposal, Testimony to The Ways and Means Committee, February 13, 2001
- The Transformation of Public Economics Research: 1970-2000, Journal of Public Economics, September 2001
- Oil Dependence and National Security: A Market-based System for Reducing U.S. Vulnerability, The National Interest, November 2001
- A productivity divide: US economic performance will rebound but Europe risks being left behind,
The Financial Times, June 28, 2001
- Archive of Other Recent Non-Technical Papers.
Recent articles on Social Security Reform -- Non-Technical Papers
- Structural Reform of Social Security, Spring 2005
(Full text as published in Journal of Economic Perspectives)
(Chinese translation) - Realizing the Potential of China's Social Security Pension System, , February 24, 2006
- With Jeffrey Liebman (Published in China Economic Times and reprinted in Jiwei Lou and Shuilin Wang, editors)
- Public Finance in China: Reform and Growth for a Harmonious Society, World Bank, 2007, chapter 17
- (Chinese translation)
- Saving Social Security, July 2005
- The $110,000 Question, September 2004
- Fact vs. Fancy: The Skinny on Social Security, August 2004
- Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform: A Progress Report, August 2004
- The Future of Social Security Pensions in Europe, September 2001
- Social Security Reform and Fiscal Policy in the
Clinton Administration, June 28, 2001
- Archive of Social Security Reform papers.
- Research studies of Social Security
Boston Globe
Harvard University Courses
- EC1420, American Economic Policy
Syllabus
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- EC2490, The Economics of National Security Seminar
