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Steel producers argue that job losses from higher U.S. steel prices would be minimal. But in a study commissioned by a steel users group, economists Laura Baughman and Joseph Francois concluded that if tariffs rose to 20.7% (a weighted-average figure), the resulting higher steel prices would cost 74,500 jobs in the wider U.S. economy. The number of steel-producing jobs that would be saved: 8,900--at a cost of $451,509 for each protected steelmaking job. Independent analysts agree that the net job loss could number in the tens of thousands. "No matter what Bush decides...
...growth of beard wandering the tunnels connecting subway stations in central Tokyo. "HELP ME," reads a sign around his neck. "RESTRUCTURED." There were nearly 20,000 bankruptcies last year - the second-highest yearly total since World War II. "It's simple," says Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's chief economist for the Asia Pacific region. "Japan has not evolved into a postindustrial econ-omy. Its dominant role in manufacturing isn't sustainable, not with countries like China gradually taking over this role." According to a recent study by the Japan Research Institute, an economic think tank, if Japanese companies continue...
...levels. "The feeling is that the management in place has tended to give low priorities to investors, having several other constituencies that come higher up the attention screen," says John Lawson, who follows the auto business at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. Adds Ekkehard Wenger, an economist at the University of Würzburg and a vocal corporate gadfly in Germany: "Volkswagen doesn't exist to serve shareholder value, it exists as part of the patronage structure of Lower Saxony...
...logic of reducing taxes during a recession is simple: with the economy underproducing, lower tax rates put more dollars back in the pockets of taxpayers at exactly the time they need it. No wonder economist Brian Wesbury said last year’s tax relief, “could very well be the best-timed tax cut in history.” Due to it, the current recession will likely be the smallest and shortest in the last 50 years. Along with tax cuts, President Bush has proposed immediate assistance to laid-off workers, extending unemployment benefits and helping...
Glenn C. Loury, who sets out his philosophies on race in America in his new book The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, has established himself firmly in the gray areas of the discussion about race. An economist by training, he is currently a professor and the founding director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University. Early in his career, his work in economics led him to the idea of “social capital”: that “family and community backgrounds can play an important role...in determining individual achievement...