The time for slowly reducing fossil fuel consumption is past. The moment has arrived to slam on the brakes – hard and fast. Full stop, as soon as possible. Not just in…
Renowned scholar Anne Krueger, who has held top economic posts at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, returned to her former academic home at the University of…
Kyle Herkenhoff and collaborators' work reveals that decades of rising land-use restrictions have slowed economic growth and made homes more expensive.
“Inequality begins at birth,” Art Rolnick said in response to the question about what he’s working on now. “Indeed, it begins prenatal. And there is no market for purchasing…
“Norway has thought long and hard about investment policy and transparency,” says Kurt Winkelmann. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund embraces the discipline of publishing every…
The shift toward one-time bonuses from sustained wage increases is less favorable for workers, said Fatih Guvenen. “Bonuses are never guaranteed,” he said, adding they give…
Employment in the music and motion-picture industries has expanded. The new jobs pay less than when gatekeepers ruled the earth, but Waldfogel found that as a whole, the…
Commentary in MinnPost by Public Pension Senior Fellow Kurt Winkelmann outlines why more steps must be taken to reduce risks in Minnesota's public pension system
The University of Minnesota Department of Economics has historically been one of the top in the world, producing nine Nobel Prize-winning faculty and alumni along the way…