The Tax Man Nudgeth (Ep. 121)
…bit. In this episode, former White House economist Austan Goolsbee tells us why the government doesn’t try too hard to collect tax on all the cash that sloshes around the…
…bit. In this episode, former White House economist Austan Goolsbee tells us why the government doesn’t try too hard to collect tax on all the cash that sloshes around the…
…cents. The plan comes courtesy of Francois Velde, an economist at the Chicago Fed. Austan Goolsbee has a nice writeup on the subject today, including the necessary history and objections….
…chair Austan Goolsbee. Krueger, 50, is known as a strict “empiricist” with a broad range of economic knowledge, having researched topics as diverse as subjective well-being to the relationship between…
…menu of funds. Several years ago, Austan Goolsbee warned us about bad 529’s, but I am guessing that even Goolsbee would now be happy with the transparency that’s been brought…
Education is the surest solution to a lot of problems. Except when it’s not.
The incoming president argues that the economy and the environment are deeply connected. This is reflected in his choice for National Economic Council director — Brian Deese, a climate-policy wonk…
Medicine has evolved from a calling into an industry, adept at dispensing procedures and pills (and gigantic bills), but less good at actual health. Most reformers call for big, bold…
…and here; Judy Chevalier and Austan Goolsbee wrote a paper about the market for used textbooks. Even closer to home, as far as the trade publishing industry is concerned, is…
…like the Simple Return, promoted by Austan Goolsbee, who has Obama’s ear. People like Daschle wouldn’t fill out the Simple Return, but it might free up the I.R.S. to catch…
…the rotating “Economic Scene” quartet of Hal Varian, Robert Frank, Tyler Cowen (who began this month), and Austan Goolsbee (who began today, with a nice piece about France’s problem with…
…Jesse Shapiro made a similar argument in a paper called “Does Television Rot Your Brain,” which Austan Goolsbee wrote about in Slate. But in two separate incidents in Brooklyn recently,…
…United States really matter? Our original podcast on the topic came out in 2010; we overhauled the episode in 2012, adding interviews with Donald Rumsfeld and Austan Goolsbee. As Jon…
…trains run, and framing issues clearly on behalf of the campaign. Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago economist and economic adviser to Barack Obama: An economic adviser’s role depends on the…
…Austan Goolsbee, an economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, recalls that when he was married over a decade ago, one caterer initially quoted him about…
It sounds as if Barack Obama has been listening to some economists (maybe even Austan Goolsbee): he has come out in favor of merit pay for schoolteachers. From an A.P….
Game theorist Barry Nalebuff explains how he used basic economics to build Honest Tea into a multimillion-dollar business, and shares his innovative approach to negotiation.
He’s an economist who studies even weirder things than Steve. They discuss whether economics is the best of the social sciences, and why it’s a good idea to get a…
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan returns to share his vision for a new way to learn — and the conversation inspires Steve to make a big announcement.
To you, it’s just a ride-sharing app that gets you where you’re going. But to an economist, Uber is a massive repository of moment-by-moment data that is helping answer some…
He’s been U.S. Treasury Secretary, a chief economist for the Obama White House and the World Bank, and president of Harvard. He’s one of the most brilliant economists of his…
Steve usually asks his guests for advice, whether they’re magicians or Nobel laureates. After nearly 60 episodes, is any of it worth following — or should we just ask listeners…
A tiny behavioral-sciences startup is trying to improve the way federal agencies do their work. Considering the size (and habits) of most federal agencies, this isn’t so simple. But after…
