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The rise in income and wealth inequality has spurred a renewed interest in progressive wealth taxation. However, experts have disputed whether rich countries like the U.S, could realistically enforce a wealth tax. The matter is even more critical in developing countries, where a happy few own most of the wealth while governments have a weak […]
Board of Visitors Mr. Sam Sheth FOUNDER AND SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR OF VERITYPOINT Sam is a founder and Senior Managing Director of VerityPoint. Since 1994, Sam has worked with several of the nation’s largest corporations and institutions to develop and implement executive and employee benefit plans that are most effective and efficient. He […]
Recently, a book was published recounting the history of the UCLA Economics Department. This book, written by David R. Henderson and Steven Globerman, discusses some of the most important economists at UCLA during the 1970s: Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, Sam Peltzman, Benjamin Klein, Robert Clower, Axel Leijonhufvud, Jack Hirshleifer, William Allen, and George Hilton. To […]
In this op-ed in The Hill, UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian argues that Washington should address historically low labor productivity growth.
In this op-ed published in Dawn, Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das measure learning in Pakistani schools and provide new evidence that learning is fragile, with children forgetting much of what they know from year to year.
Will Rafey is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His work focuses on the design and regulation of environmental markets. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his thesis studied how climate change can affect the value of new markets for river water, wetland conservation, and clean technologies.
On July 1st, Simon Board took over as lead Editor of Theoretical Economics after spending four years as Co-Editor. Theoretical Economics is the leading journal in economic theory. It is open access and is a journal of the Econometric Society.
UCLA Department of Economics