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Timothy Taylor Global Economy Expert

Timothy Taylor is an American economist. He is managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a quarterly academic journal produced at Macalester College and published by the American Economic Association. Taylor received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and a master's degree in economics from Stanford University. At Stanford, he was winner of the award for excellent teaching in a large class (more than 30 students) given by the Associated Students of Stanford University. At Minnesota, he was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Department of Economics and voted Teacher of the Year by the master's degree students at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Taylor has been a guest speaker for groups of teachers of high school economics, visiting diplomats from eastern Europe, talk-radio shows, and community groups. From 1989 to 1997, Professor Taylor wrote an economics opinion column for the San Jose Mercury-News. He has published multiple lectures on economics through The Teaching Company. With Rudolph Penner and Isabel Sawhill, he is co-author of Updating America's Social Contract (2000), whose first chapter provided an early radical centrist perspective, "An Agenda for the Radical Middle". Taylor is also the author of The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works, published by the Penguin Group in 2012. The fourth edition of Taylor's Principles of Economics textbook was published by Textbook Media in 2017.

Robert Nozick: Entitled by Education?

I ran across a headline a few weeks ago in a US Census Bureau press release: “Teachers Are Among Most Educated, Yet Their Pay Lags.” The article itself is perfectly sensible, just offering statistics to point out that teachers often have lower pay than others who have BA degrees.

Written by: Timothy Taylor
01/09/2022
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The “Gobbledygook” of Unreadable Prose

Sure, you are sometimes frustrated by the quality of writing in your organization.

Written by: Timothy Taylor
31/08/2022
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Face-to-Face Society and Commercial Society

A common complaint about economics is that by focusing on exchange, it does not take the morality of that exchange into account.

Written by: Timothy Taylor
31/08/2022
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Social Security: On Hold Until 2034?

For the last 30 years, the actuaries who draw up the long-run projections for Social Security have been forecasting that by the 2030s, there would be inadequate funds to pay promised Social Security benefits.