The Audacity: Stimulus Plan Based on Evidence, or Hope?

  • 12 years ago
The Audacity: Stimulus Plan Based on Evidence, or Hope?
The Hoover Institution - The Hoover Institution
Michael Boskin and Edward Lazear take on the economy, discussing the explosion of deficit spending and the unprecedented increase in the money supply.Following the worst recession since WWII, why does the economic recovery seem so weak? Where, in particular, are the jobs? As a matter of pure economics, what do we need to do? As a matter of practical politics, how can we do it?