GSPP student Jonathan Stein has written a piece for the Huffington Post entitled “The Most Important Vote for Higher Ed.”
Funding for the UC has dropped consistently over the last 25 years, during the rule of both Democratic and Republican governors, and with a variety of administrators at the helm of the UC. Students in California [...]

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One hears a lot about financial literacy as a critical skill for the citizenry of today.  But an interesting article by Lauren Willis of Loyola Law School (dating from February 2008) suggests that this is a canard.
A prior article demonstrated that belief in the effectiveness of financial literacy education lacks empirical support. This article argues [...]

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A striking passage from James K. Galbraith, well-known economist at UT Austin:
Can anyone in modern American politics actually oppose the market? Of course not. Can anyone deny its relevance, or even its existence? To do so would be political suicide–precisely like denying the existence of God, and for the same reasons. …To profess skepticism or [...]

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As part of the Homecoming events, there was a panel in the Chan Shun Auditorium today with GSPP Dean Henry Brady, Prof. Ellwood, and CA state senator Carol Liu on the California budget crisis.  It was filmed, and I’m told GSPP will be placing the video online for all to see.  In the meantime, or [...]

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The Democratic Party of Japan, which just won power in the Japanese elections in a historic first, has some very clear ideas about how structural arrangements in the executive branch affect policymaking, that seem derived from a generation of political science papers.

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