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.

 
Reality Check on Median Household Income

Reality Check on Median Household Income

In studies of voters, politicians, and elections, it’s common to hear a mention of the “median voter,” the voter who is in the center of the distribution. In this admittedly simplified model, if a politician can attract everyone from their side, plus the median voter, then that politician has a majority.

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KIPP Schools and Lessons for Education Catch-up

KIPP Schools and Lessons for Education Catch-up

One of the biggest problems in K-12 education is helping students who fall behind in early grades catch up during middle-school and high-school.

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Reality Check on US Manufacturing Jobs

Reality Check on US Manufacturing Jobs

I seem to run into comments on a semi-regular basis about how the policies of either President Biden or President Trump either are bringing back US manufacturing jobs or have already done so. Thus, a quick reality check seemed in order.

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Learning Losses During the Pandemic: Reviewing the Evidence

Learning Losses During the Pandemic: Reviewing the Evidence

Considerable evidence has been suggesting for some time now that children suffered learning loss from the K-12 during the pandemic.

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Earning the Commute: Effects of the Pandemic on Real Estate

Earning the Commute: Effects of the Pandemic on Real Estate

It’s a standard story at this point: work-from-home seems to be establishing itself as commonplace in many companies–at least in the “hybrid” form where many or most workers come into the office 3-4 days each week, but work from home the remaining time.

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