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.

 
Homelessness, Temperatures, Shelter Rate, Bed Rate

Homelessness, Temperatures, Shelter Rate, Bed Rate

How does the homelessness situation vary across states? Brent D. Mast offers some basic facts in "Measuring Homelessness and Resources to Combat Homelessness with PIT and HIC Data" (Cityscape, vol 22, no. 1, published by US Department of Housing and Urban Development, pp. 215-225).

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Some Thought on US Pharmaceutical Prices and Markets

Some Thought on US Pharmaceutical Prices and Markets

There's a broadly shared idea of how US pharmaceutical markets ought to work, I think.

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Health Care Headed for One-Fifth of US Economy

Health Care Headed for One-Fifth of US Economy

I view myself as a fairly jaded consumer of statistics on rising health care costs, but the most recent 10-year projections from the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services widened my eyes.

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Product Longevity and Planned Obsolecence

Product Longevity and Planned Obsolescence

Do profit-making firms plan to produce products that will be come obsolete sooner than necessary, so that they can keep sales high over time? And would it be better for both consumers and the environment if they stopped doing so? 

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ILO: COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Global Labor Force

ILO: COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Global Labor Force

Amidst our concerns about jobs in the local or national labor market, spare a thought for the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on the global labor force.

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