Topical Essays

The Economy Can Tell Us Only So Much About How Presidential Elections Will Go
(New York Times Newsletter, October 25, 2024) Peter Coy Summarizes RJG NBER WP 33068, October 2024.

Invention Has less Effect on Growth than Previously
(Le Monde | January 5, 2023) English version in MS Word.

Les inventions ont moins d’effets sur la croissance qu’autrefois
(Le Monde | January 5, 2023) French version as published.

The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown: Similarities Outweigh the Differences
(With Hassan Sayed | Vox EU | August 2019)

Why Robots Will Not Decimate Human Jobs
(LinkedIn | November 15, 2016)

American Growth Has Slowed Down: Get Used to It
(Politico magazine | September, 2016)

Corporate Tax Reform is Vital to Boosting America’s Growth
(Financial Times | August 25, 2016)

Can Clinton or Trump Recapture Robust American Growth?
(New York Times | August 8, 2016)

The Turtle’s Progress: Secular Stagnation Meets the Headwinds
(VOX | August 15, 2016)

Off Its Pinnacle
(In Finance and Development, IMF Quarterly, vol. 53(2), June 2016, pp. 33-37)

The Great Stagnation of American Education
(The New York Times | September 7, 2013)

Why Innovation Won’t Save Us
(The Wall Street Journal | December 22, 2012
Reduced Version of print article and legible version of web version of print article)

Dissent on Recession’s End
(Economix, April 12, 2010)

A Broken Economic Law
(Louis Uchitelle | Economix | February 22, 2010)

Green Shoot or Dead Twig: Can unemployment claims predict the end of the American recession?
(VOX | May 1, 2009)

The Rise in American Inequality
(VOX | June 19, 2008)

Europe’s employment growth revived after 1995 while productivity growth slowed: Is it a coincidence?
(VOX | April 15, 2008)

Top 10 Airline Events of the 1990s
(Aviation Daily | December 27, 1999)

The Hub Premium Myth
(Aviation Daily | October 28, 1999)

Airline Competition Beyond the Millennium
(Aviation Daily | August 18, 1999)

Deregulation Hasn’t Concentrated Airline Power, Analysis Shows
(Aviation Daily | December 18, 1998)

Flights of Fancy: Reregulating Nation’s Airlines, a Foolish Idea
(Chicago Tribune | April 7, 1998)