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8 May 2023, 5:16 am by Jane Bambauer
”) In the context of app stores, former economic adviser to President Barack Obama Jason Furman and others are making basically the same mistake, asserting, by implication at least, that the two mobile operating systems that currently dominate the market in the United States—Apple and Android—are destined to remain the only options. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The Closest Thing to a Substantive Argument: The Return of the Confidence FairyThe one source in RT’s piece who is neither a conservative ideologue or a deficit scold (which is merely a different kind of conservative ideologue) is Jason Furman, an economist who served in the Obama administration. [read post]
24 Sep 2022, 9:06 am by Tom Smith
Jason Furman, former chairman of President Obama’s council of economic advisors and current Harvard professor, commented recently that most academic economists have been ‘skeptical (mostly silently)’ of the stimulus packages. [read post]
3 Sep 2022, 2:35 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Jason Furman, former Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, argues that it will make inflation worse. [read post]
5 May 2022, 2:00 am by Paul Caron
., by Jason Furman (Harvard): The U.S. system for taxing international corporate income has long been dysfunctional. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 6:04 pm
  I am delighted to announce that the essays in Volume 16(1) of Emancipating the Mind: Bulletin of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics (Summer 2021) (ISSN 2689-0283 (Print); 2689-0291 (Online); ISBN 978-1-949943-06-1) are now available.This issue includes essays on Contemporary China--Heartland, Periphery, and Silk Roads. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 10:16 am by Tom Smith
Instead, policy has actually loosened,” said Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration. [read post]
6 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal $5,800 Bottle of Whiskey, a Gift from Japan to Pompeo, Is Missing, U.S. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 12:37 pm by Tom Smith
From Bob Rubin to Tim Geithner to Jason Furman to Michael Froman and beyond, the people one friend jokingly refers to as the “Rubino Crime Family” are all basically the same person, affectless technocrats who play up reputations as giant-brained intellectuals — I always imagine them with bulbous Alien Nation heads — while reveling in cold, hard truths about the limits of government assistance.Of course, these same people often believe in jaw-droppingly… [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 4:18 pm by INFORRM
A good deal of credit for this can be put down to inquiries led by two people, Dame Frances Cairncross and Jason Furman (the former chief economist to US president Barack Obama). [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 12:55 pm by William Ford, Tia Sewell
Federal Communications Commission, Jason Furman, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Shorenstein Center Senior Fellows Tom Wheeler,Phil Verveer andGene Kimmelman will discuss the recently released paper “New Digital Realities; New Oversight Solutions in the U.S.; The Case for a Digital Platform Agency and a New Approach to Regulatory Oversight. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 9:55 pm by Kevin Kaufman
Key Findings The fiscal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic will require policymakers to consider what revenue resources should be used to fill budget gaps. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on Tuesday on The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax with these witnesses: Jason Furman (Harvard), Testimony: Corporate tax collections are very low both in historical perspective and compared with other countries. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 4:08 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The move reflects the findings of a review led by Jason Furman, chief economic adviser to former US president Barack Obama, which looked into the “emergence of powerful new companies” in the tech sector and recommended a dedicated regulator.. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Highlights of the opening day of the National Tax Association 112th Annual Conference on Taxation in Tampa (full program here): Keynote: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages Joel Slemrod (Michigan) Plenary: Capital and Wealth Taxation Jason Furman (Harvard) Beth Kaufman (Caplin & Drysdale) Henrik J. [read post]
15 May 2019, 1:47 pm by D Daniel Sokol
Back to the Future of Antitrust Review of The Antitrust Paradigm post by Jason Furman Draft: May 14, 2019 Although many lament the increasing monopolization of the economy, one admittedly narrow market is defying this trend: books about the monopolization... [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Jason Furman recently published an Article entitled, The 2017 Tax Law: A Boost to Growth or a Missed Opportunity? [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Jason Furman (Harvard), The 2017 Tax Law: A Boost to Growth or a Missed Opportunity? [read post]
8 Dec 2018, 1:40 pm by Ilya Somin
That includes both pro-free market experts and prominent left-liberals such as Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Matthew Yglesias of Vox, Yale Law School Professor David Schleicher, and Jason Furman, Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. [read post]
22 Apr 2018, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
David Schleicher, and Jason Furman, Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. [read post]