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The Industrial Revolution: past and future
"We live in a world of staggering and unprecedented income inequality," writes Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas in the 2003 annual report essay. Lucas goes on to use economic history to frame explanations and present possible solutions to this global quandary.
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The tax cut illusion
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Breaking down the barriers to technological progress: how U.S. policy can promote higher economic growth
1996 Annual Report essay
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Modern macroeconomics in practice: how theory is shaping monetary policy
Over the last three decades, macroeconomic theory and the practice of macroeconomics by economists have changed significantly?for the better. Macroeconomics is now firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory.
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Banking's middle ground: balancing excessive regulation and taxpayer risk
1992 Annual Report essay
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Giving aid effectively
University of Chicago economist and former Minneapolis Fed adviser Nancy Stokey on the goals and methods of the Copenhagen Consensus, in which 8 prominent economists used benefit/cost analysis to evaluate and prioritize projects to address serious global problems. (Annual Report essay)
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Fixing FDICIA: a plan to address the too-big-to-fail problem
1997 Annual Report Essay