Sunday, October 31, 2010

Recommended: The Case Against the Fiscal Stimulus

Harvard professor of Economics Jeffrey Miron has written an interesting paper: The Case Against the Fiscal Stimulus.  He argues that not only has the stimulus been fairly ineffective, it was bound to be fairly ineffective because it is an inefficient policy tool for the sort of fiscal problems we face.  Its a little dry and academic in tone, but well worth reading and thinking about.