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Brian J. Asquith

Brian J. Asquith, PhD, is an economist at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Articles by Brian J. Asquith

Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation?

In 2011, the economist Tyler Cowen published The Great Stagnation, a short treatise with a provocative hypothesis. Cowen challenged his audience to look beyond the gleam of the internet and personal compu­ting, arguing that these innovations masked a more troubling reality. Cowen contended that, since the 1970s, there has been a marked stagna­tion in critical…

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The Iron Triangle of Family Policy

Population aging is proceeding apace across the world, but there is little agreement on what to do about it or even whether it is a bad thing at all. On the upside, older, smaller societies will have a correspondingly smaller climate impact, will be able to invest more per child, and will suffer less congestion…

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