Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute, or EPI for short , is a non-partisan, not-for-profit think tank in Washington . Politically assigned to the center-left, it claims to have set itself the goal of influencing public debate in order to develop strategies for a prosperous and socially just economy.
EPI was founded in 1986 as the first institute in the USA with the purpose of bringing the interests of the lower and middle classes into economic policy. The founders were Jeff Faux , first president of the EPI; the economist Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University ; Robert Kuttner , columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect ; Ray Marshall , former US Secretary of Labor and Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin ; Robert B. Reich , former US Secretary of Labor and Professor at Brandeis University, and Lester Thurow, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management . Jared Bernstein , who has been with the Institute since 1992, was elected Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor by Joe Biden , Vice President of the United States , in December 2008 .
The central research areas are the living and labor market conditions of the US population, the relationship between the state and the economy, foreign trade under the conditions of globalization and the education system. In a recent paper, the macroeconomist John Irons points out the long-term consequences of the economic crisis if it is not counteracted politically. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman spoke out in favor of additional employment policy measures, such as the job creation tax credit proposed by EPI, because the government's economic stimulus measures were insufficient .
more publishments
- 2010: John Irons / Josh Bivens: Government Debt and Economic Growth , EPI Briefing Paper No. 271
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- ↑ John Irons: Economic scarring: The long-term impacts of the recession. (PDF; 184 kB) September 30, 2009
- ^ Paul Krugman: Mission Not Accomplished New York Times October 2, 2009
- ^ Paul Krugman: Free to Lose. New York Times. November 12, 2009. A version of this article appeared in print on November 13, 2009, on page A31 of the New York edition.
- ↑ Timothy J. Bartik, John H. Bishop: The Job Creation Tax Credit. ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 316 kB) EPI Briefing Paper # 248, October 2009.
- ↑ http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/bp271
