 State of Democracy Lecture. Professor Leonard Burman addressed "Is the United States Headed for a Catastrophic Budget Failure?" on November 20 in Maxwell Auditorium. The lecture investigated the causes and consequences of catastrophic budget failure and what we can do to avoid it.
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.jpg "DavidVanSlyke") Van Slyke Paper Cited in White House Policy Memo. David Van Slyke’s paper, "Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets," was recently cited in an Office of Management and Budget policy memorandum about how federal agencies conduct human resource planning. Read more.
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 Mitra Quoted in Slate. The article, entitled "Apocalypse Then," investigates whether millennial preparations were a good idea or a huge waste, with Devashish Mitra arguing that the search for cheap coders led American firms to India. Mitra concludes that "outsourcing kept increasing well after the Y2K problem became a thing of the past." Read more.
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 Boroujerdi Quoted in The New York Times. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was quoted a New York Times article on political disagreement inside Iran about the proposed nuclear deal with the West. Read more.
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"Personal savings need a boost." Leonard Burman's latest economic watch column, printed in The Washington Times, concerns the need for a boost in the personal savings rate. Read more.
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