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.

 
When Small Groups are Big, and Big Groups are Small

When Small Groups are Big, and Big Groups are Small

Most people don’t have a clear intuitive grip on numbers that are either pretty small or pretty large.

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Prospects for Inflation

Prospects for Inflation

When inflation first started kicking up its heels last summer, there was a dispute over whether it was likely to be temporary or permanent.

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Interview with Jeffrey Wooldridge: Topics in Econometrics

Interview with Jeffrey Wooldridge: Topics in Econometrics

A few parts of this half-hour interview on “The Current and Future of Econometrics” with Jeffrey Wooldridge, conducted by several questions for a nonprofit called SciEcon-AMA (of which I have no knowledge), may be more accessible to researchers in of that blend of economics and statistics known as “econometrics.”

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Policy for US Children in Low-Income Households

Policy for US Children in Low-Income Households

When it comes to public policy affecting children, two issues always arise.

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The Evolution of Labor Force Participation by Race

The Evolution of Labor Force Participation by Race

With “the Great Resignation”–that is, the rise in people since the pandemic who are out of the labor force and neither employed nor looking for work–it’s perhaps useful to point out some substantial shifts in racial differences in labor force participation.

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