A Harvard Economist on Why He Supports The Daily Beast Manifesto
An Oxford-educated economist, Richard Parker teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the biographer of John Kenneth Galbraith, co-founder of Mother Jones, and currently advises the Greek government on economic reforms. He is working on a book about Nixon’s legacy in today’s world.
Richard Parker explains why he joined more than 100 economists and historians in signing The Daily Beast manifesto calling for tax cuts and stimulus spending to reboot America, even as the proposal has triggered a fierce debate among his colleagues.
Let's Start Spending
Robert H. Frank, an economist at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management, is the co-author, with Ben S. Bernanke, of Principles of Economics.
Leading economist and deficit hawk Robert H. Frank signs on to The Daily Beast manifesto and explains why he is for more spending to get us out of this dismal recession.
Reboot America—Manifesto Support Surges
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As the Senate appears ready to finally pass an extension of unemployment benefits, two dozen more economists, including two Nobel Prize winners, have joined the call for action now, swelling the total of economic thought leaders to 40.
Does the Economy Need Another Round of Stimulus?
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Sixteen notable economists and thought leaders published a manifesto calling for more government stimulus and tax credits to put America back to work. Do you agree with their call to action?
Reboot America!
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Fourteen million out of work! Sixteen notable economists and historians have joined in a consensus statement for The Daily Beast demanding urgent action on unemployment and the faltering recovery. Alan Blinder, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Richard Parker, Derek Shearer, Laura Tyson, Sir Harold Evans, and other leaders have produced a manifesto calling for more government stimulus and tax credits to put America back to work.
Why Business Hates Obama
Joel Kotkin is a presidential fellow at Chapman University in Orange, California, and an adjunct fellow with the Legatum Institute in London. He is author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, recently published by Penguin Press.
Financial reform might irk Wall Street, but the president's real problem is with small businesses-the engine of any serious recovery. Joel Kotkin on what he could have done differently.
Bankers: Is Obama of This Earth?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The White House business meetings left some participants feeling the Obama administration lives in an alternate reality. Lloyd Grove reports on the fallout.
Trashing Obama's Economic Team
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Reagan White House budget guru David Stockman talks to Lloyd Grove about the dangers of ignoring the deficit, why Bernanke, Geithner and Summers must be fired ASAP-and his support for Ron Paul.
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Conchita Sarnoff has developed multimedia communication programs for Fortune 500 companies and has produced three current events debate television programs, The Americas Forum, From Beirut to Kabul, and a segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is a contributor to The Huffington Post and she is writing a book about child trafficking in America.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Allen Barra writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice. He also writes about books for Salon.com, Bookforum, and the Washington Post. His latest book is Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee.
Dayo Olopade is a political reporter for The Daily Beast and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.
