Robert Barro

Rachel M. McCleary

The National Research Initiative is pleased to welcome visiting scholars Robert Barro and Rachel M. McCleary to AEI.

Robert Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also coeditor of Harvard's Quarterly Journal of Economics and was recently president of the Western Economic Association and vice president of the American Economic Association. While at AEI, he will be exploring the effects of the stimulus bill on the U.S. economy.

Rachel M. McCleary is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Taubman Center, where she directs the Political Economy of Religion Project. She is the author of four books, including Global Compassion: Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1939 (Oxford University Press, 2009). While at AEI, her work will focus on the political economy of religion, particularly as it applies to Evangelicals.

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Millennials, the generation of Americans born between 1982 and 2001, are emerging into adulthood, and one thing is clear: this is a generation that believes they are going to change the world. At this event, University of Virginia professor James Hunter, author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010), will discuss the challenges facing Evangelicals as they engage with the contemporary social issues of today. [READ MORE]

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Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
By Kevin A. Hassett, Aparna Mathur, and Gilbert E. Metcalf
AEI Working Paper, June 2010

Policymakers and scholars have begun to recognize the bias toward regressivity in carbon pricing due to underreporting of capital income deciles in the Consumer Expenditure Survey. In this AEI working paper, Kevin A. Hassett (AEI), Aparna Mathur (AEI), and Gilbert E. Metcalf (Tufts University) develop a new method for measuring the burden of carbon pricing and adjusting for the capital income bias within the survey. Arguably, shifting from a focus on the uses-side to the sources-side incidence of carbon pricing would present carbon policies in a more progressive light. [READ MORE]

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Paul H. Rubin (Emory University) argues that there is an unmerited disparity between the public's perceptions of the federal government's response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Hurricane Katrina. As the hurricane took place on state land, President George W. Bush was left handicapped in his ability to respond to the situation and yet was criticized for failing to address it. The oil spill, in contrast, occurred on federal land, providing President Barack Obama with greater authority to act and respond. His efforts, however, have proved ineffective and actually hindered and undermined state and local attempts to address the spill. [READ MORE]

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AEI Press, July 2010

When will the world run out of oil? Should nuclear energy be adopted on a larger scale? Are ethanol and wind power viable sources of energy for the future? A number of misconceptions concerning the future of global energy have emerged in recent years, effectively wasting taxpayers' time and money and hampering the development of progressive policies. In Energy Myths and Realities, Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor of Environment and Environmental Geography at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, addresses the issue from a scientific perspective, exposing the popular myths that have clouded our judgment and impeded true progress. [READ MORE]

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