October 13, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Both parties seem to agree that the way to get Americans back to work is to create the right incentives. But Amity Shlaes argues that there may be too much "nudging" going on. Perhaps having too many "choice architects" is making the recovery unsatisfying.
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July 22, 2009
Video
Watch Peter R. Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, discuss actions taken by the Obama administration in light of the financial crisis and prospects for recovery.
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July 22, 2009, New York
Transcript
Peter R. Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, discusses actions taken by the Obama administration in light of the financial crisis and prospects for recovery.
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July 14, 2009
Essential Documents
In this report, the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) presents a projection of potential developments in the U.S. labor market over the next five to ten years and discusses the preparations necessary to develop the 21st century workforce. We discuss the skills that will likely be most relevant in growing occupations, the value and limitations of our current post-high school education and training systems, and the characteristics of a more effective education and training structure.
June 8, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Edward Alden argues, "the U.S. can't afford to keep turning away the best and the brightest."
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April 14, 2009
Must Read
A working paper released by researchers from New York University's Stern School of Business and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania dispels the myth that globalization generates no losers. The study looks at how compensation for domestic workers is affected depending on whether or not employers are using offshore and H-1B employment.
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March 30, 2009
Video
Watch experts analyze the various labor policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations and the effects they had on the Great Depression.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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March 30, 2009
Audio
Listen to experts analyze the various labor policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations and the effects they had on the Great Depression.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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March 30, 2009, New York
Transcript
Session Two of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a Second Look at the Great Depression and The New Deal. Did labor policy under Hoover and Roosevelt make the Depression worse, or pave the way to recovery?
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For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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