Who really pays for costs of employee health benefits that rise faster than labor productivity?

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

Are global corporations cleaning up their supply chains? The debate over the abysmally low wages paid to workers in emerging economies illustrates the difficulty. There are two conflicting narratives, both tied to China.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

Ominously labeled "Taxmageddon," a host of tax policy changes are set to occur at year-end, and there truly is much at stake: $3.67 trillion of additional tax revenue over 10 years from the Bush tax cuts alone.

The first order of business for a Republican president next year should be corporate-tax reform. But even if Republicans win big in the fall, undoing America's largest policy error will be an almost impossible political lift, unless enough people in both parties come to grips with the counterintuitive economics of corporate-tax reform.