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Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis co...

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This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of th...

Tax policy debates-and reforms-depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would aff...

This unusual volume marks the sixtieth anniversary of the National Bureau of Economic Research. I...

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation brings together fourteen papers that show the importa...

The tax rules of the United States and other countries have intended and unintended effects on th...

The National Bureau of Economic Research organized a project to explore the economic issues facin...

Recent changes in technology, along with the opening up of many regions previously closed to inve...

Economists have long recognized the importance of capital accumulation for productivity and econo...