Word: poterba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most recently Summers has been developingtheories for why employment rates in Europe andparts of the U.S. have remained at consistentlyhigh levels, Poterba said...
...been at the center of much controversy"over these new ideas, Poterba said...
Summers' work covers several fields, including macroeconomics, labor market interests and corporate capital developments, said James M. Poterba '80, associate economics professor at MIT and a colleague of Summers...
...Most of Summers' work is not only of academicinterest, but also of substantial interest forpolicy purposes," Poterba said...
...pressing national policy issue is whatexplains the decline of U.S. competitivenessabroad and the declineing rate of U.S.productivity growth. A common villain in thisdiscussion is the taxation of corporate capital,and Larry has done a great deal of workunderstanding [this villain]," Poterba said...