• Economic strength and American leadership / George P. Shultz
• Uncertainty unbundled : the metrics of activism / Alan Greenspan
• Has economic policy uncertainty hampered the recovery? / Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis
• How the financial crisis caused persistent unemployment / Robert E. Hall
• What the government purchases multiplier actually multiplied in the 2009 stimulus package / John F. Cogan and John B. Taylor
• The labor productivity puzzle / Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott
• Why the U.S. economy has failed to recover and what policies will promote growth / Kyle F. Herkenhoff and Lee E. Ohanian
• Restoring sound economic policy : three views / Alan Greenspan, George P. Shultz, and John H. Cochrane.

How government policies are slowing economic growth The slow recovery from the recession of 2007-9 raises fundamental economic and public policy concerns. Government Policies and the Delayed Economic Recovery examines some possible causes of the weak recovery and presents empirical evidence that too much policy activism and other policy shortcomings have held back economic growth. The book examines a wide range of policies that have led to the delayed economic recovery, from increased regulation to ineffective programs that have driven up the public debt. Although their opinions are not always the same, together the contributors reveal a common theme: the delayed recovery has been due to the enactment of poor economic policies and the failure to implement good ones. The authors conclude their analysis by providing a framework for how policies should change to restore strong economic growth.
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• Background facts / James Piereson
• The broad-based rise in return to top talent / Joshua D. Rauh
• The economic determinants of top income inequality / Charles I. Jones
• Intergenerational mobility and income inequality / Jörg L. Spenkuch
• The effects of redistribution policies on growth and unemployment / Casey B. Mulligan
• Income and wealth in America / Kevin M. Murphy and Emmanuel Saez
• Conclusions and solutions / John H. Cochrane, Lee E. Ohanian, and George P. Shultz
• Remembering Gary Becker / Edward P. Lazear and George P. Shultz.

Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress.
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• Think long / George P. Shultz
• Policy principles : lessons from the Fed's past / Allan H. Meltzer
• The market view : incentives matter / Peter Fisher
• Monetary policy in the financial crisis / Donald Kohn
• Concerns about the Fed's new balance sheet / James D. Hamilton
• The need for a clear and credible exit strategy / John B. Taylor
• Market-based mechanisms to reduce systemic risk / Myron Scholes
• Policy issues facing the market for credit derivatives / Darrell Duffie
• Should the federal reserve be a systemic stability regulator? / Andrew Crockett
• Systemic risks and the Bear Stearns crisis / Michael Halloran
• Why and how resolution policy must be improved / Richard Herring.

Expert contributors examine the recent actions of the Federal Reserve and suggest directions for the Fed going forward by drawing on past political, historical, and market principles. They explain how the Fed arrived at its current position, offer ideas on how to exit the situation, and propose new market-based reforms that can help keep the Fed on the road to good monetary policy in the future.
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