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[CFR.org - Asia] U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula - Council on Foreign Relations: He was a senior economist at the Council of Eco­nomic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and has held research or teaching positions at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, and the Korea Development Institute. Noland has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous books including Korea After Kim Jong-il, Economic Integra­tion of the Korean Peninsula, and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (with Stephan Haggard).

[Business] Our economy ranks among best in nation, study finds | HamptonRoads ...: The flow of federal funds, especially from the Defense Department, continued to provide crucial support for Hampton Roads' economy, said Howard Wial, an economist and co-author of Brookings' MetroMonitor study.

[New America Policy Papers] Long-term Consequences of Economic Fluctuations | NewAmerica.net: Even those who advocated fiscal tools conceded that they were subject to political obstacles that slowed the response time to recessions, so that by the time they had taken full effect they were overheating an already ongoing expansion. Finally, most had come to believe that the deep and long recessions where fiscal policy might be necessary were relics of the past, and that monetary policy alone was an adequate countercyclical tool which, if properly used, would maximize growth over time.

[Business Insurance] Alert: Social security cuts coming « Business Insurance: They’re focusing public anxiety over the economy on the deficit””and even though the deficit is almost entirely a result of Bush cutting taxes for the rich while waging two wars, the “deficit hawks” want us to cut the programs vulnerable Americans rely on to survive””Social Security and Medicare.

[Next American City] Next American City » Magazine » Surviving Suburbia: He’s referring to initiatives to deconcentrate poverty, such as affordable housing laws in New Jersey that require every municipality to take on a certain burden of low-income housing, as well as smaller-level efforts, such as the Seattle Housing Authority’s 1995 decision to tear down a stock of public housing and replace it with options ranging from subsidized rental units to homes selling in the hundred-thousands. Such government initiatives have grown out of sociological arguments saying that spreading poverty around, so to speak, lessens the secondary effects, such as crime rates.

[Untitled] Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or "Correction" | OurFuture.org: In a recent Harvard Business Review article, he and his co-author, Leo Tilman, argue that dynamism in the U.S. has actually been in decline for a decade; with the housing bubble fueling easy (but unsustainable) growth for much of that time, we just didn’t notice.

[Brookings: Audio Events] Education under Attack: Violence against Students, Teachers and ...: On May 17, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings hosted a discussion of UNESCO’s "Education under Attack 2010" report and of the action taken by the Coalition for Protecting Education from Attack with Brendan O’Malley, author of the UNESCO report; Chris Talbot of Education Above All and chair of the Global Coalition for Protecting Education from Attack;

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » China & the world economy: (The Economist) In the West people worry that developing countries want to copy “the China model”. Scholars and officials in China itself, however, are divided over whether there is a China model (or “Beijing consensus” as it was dubbed in 2004 by Joshua Cooper Ramo, an American consultant, playing on the idea of a declining “Washington consensus”), and if so what the model is and whether it is wise to talk about it

[Road4Blog] Road4Blog - Why a High Tax-To-GDP Rate Won't Spur Growth: The Homebuyer’s Credit expired on April 30, 2010, but a handful of politicians are working to reinstate it, fearing an extended real estate slump. While Harry Reid proposes extending the closing deadline on the most expired credit (all pending deals must close before June 30 to be eligible for the credit) to September 30, Ron Paul is proposing we make the credit permanent.

[NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit] Primer on Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region | Blog ...: Setting up a regional social investment forum for scaling up youth initiatives. As related to the recommendation just mentioned, this recommendation was based on the finding that while we see many innovations in the region, they lack the necessary support for impact evaluation, documentation, business planning as well as access to possible funding / social investment opportunities in order to scale up and to achieve wider and larger impact.

[And Now for Something Completely Different by Michael Hendricks] McCook Daily Gazette: Blog: A Plea from an Educator: Lee Fritschler, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and an author of the new book "Closed Minds ? Universities" (Brookings Institution Press).

[Colonel6's Blog] I SAID “WAKE UP”: As an economist, I am astonished that the American economics profession has no awareness whatsoever that the U.S. economy has been destroyed by the offshoring of U.S. GDP to overseas countries. U.S. corporations, in pursuit of absolute advantage or lowest labor costs and maximum CEO “performance bonuses,” have moved the production of goods and services marketed to Americans to China, India, and elsewhere abroad.

[The Urbanophile] The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Richard Herman: Will a Dying ...: Immigrants will often settle for the worst neighborhoods and schools because it gains a small stake in the new community, even though the schools and civic infrastructre may be awful. The worst areas may remain transient, churning out established families and replacing them with newer immigrants, while the more stable ones will allow an enclave to develop that will create a class of merchants, professionals and civic leaders.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » New York Times ...: Hussain had made on a panel in 2004, while he was a student at Yale Law School, in which he referred to several domestic terrorism prosecutions as “politically motivated.” Among the cases he criticized was that of Sami Al-Arian, a former computer-science professor in Florida who pleaded guilty to aiding members of a Palestinian terrorist group.

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