Economist's View (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Robert Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker survey "seven aspects of rising inequality": Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey, by Robert J. Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker, NBER WP 13982, April 2008 [Open Link to Paper]: Abstract This paper provides...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
A young Sacramento couple are planning to bring some Napa Valley sophistication to the Gold Country's bed-and-breakfast scene. Robert Gordon and Athena Padilla-Gordon own the Hanford House Bed & Breakfast Inn in Sutter Creek. They hope to lure visitors from Sacramento and the Bay Area who are touring Amador County wineries with boutique-style enticements such as a "wine-bar bistro."
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) presented an economic plan that offers a $1.7 trillion tax cut for corporations, “more than twice as much as McCain gives families with his child deduction,” as The Wonk Room’s James Kvaal and Robert Gordon noted. Today on MSNBC, McCain was asked if he is understating the costs of his tax [...]
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Are employment growth and productivity growth negatively correlated in the short-run? If so, what does this mean for policy? Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon use data from the EU to look at this question: Europe’s employment growth revived after 1995...
News1130 - All News Radio (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Vancouver Police Marine Squad's newest vessel, the R.G. McBeath VC, was christened this morning at the Main Street dock. It's named after Robert Gordon McBeath, a Victoria Cross recipient and member ...
The engineer (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Robert Gordon University claims to be the first Scottish institution to adopt the environmentally friendly Cobiax technique in a new build at its Garthdee campus.
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Center for American Progress : Five Easy Pieces and Two Trillion Dollars The Bush-McCain-Norquist Tax Agenda, by Robert Gordon & James Kvaal Citizens for Tax Justice: Center for American Progress Finds McCain Tax Plan a Continuation of George W. Bush/Grover...
ataxingmatter (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
The Center for American Progress Action Fund has put together a study of candidate John McCain and the likely impact of his tax policies, as he has expressed them as a candidate, if he is elected president. Robert Gordon and...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 28, 2008. "With violent crime down in the U.S., Republicans no longer try to paint Democrats as soft on crime, and Democrats no longer feel the need to prove themselves tough on the issue, writes Robert Gordon in The New Republic. Campus shootings in Virginia and Illinois have barely registered politically, and President Bush's evisceration of aid...
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Writing here in The New Republic, Robert Gordon has a notable commentary entitled "Criminal Intent: The presidential candidates need to stop ignoring America's crime problem — and start considering innovative solutions." Here is how the commentary begins: Here's a funny...
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Writing here in The New Republic, Robert Gordon has a notable commentary entitled "Criminal Intent: The presidential candidates need to stop ignoring America's crime problem — and start considering innovative solutions." Here is how the commentary begins: Here's a funny thing about this presidential campaign season: Two crime dramas — "The Wire" and "Law & Order" — have gotten more attention...
The RBC (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Robert Gordon thinks it might be time for progressives to talk about it. I've long thought it rather perverse that, with the burdens of crime and the costs of crime avoidance falling most heavily on poor and minority communities, liberals have tended to accept the notion that law enforcement is somehow naturally a "conservative" issue. Yes, there are other things to do about crime other...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
by hilzoy Robert Gordon and James Kvaal have done us all a service by examining McCain's proposals on taxes. According to his website, McCain wants to do the following: (a) Repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT was designed to...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
In today's Washington Post, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, senior policy adviser to Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) presidential campaign, writes about McCain's plan for “turning around the economy.” But as the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Robert Gordon notes on the Wonk Room, there “is not one word about the two massive corporate tax cuts that Sen. [...]
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
JOHN McCAIN'S WORLD....When it comes to the Iraq war, John McCain's basic policy is "Just like Bush, but even crazier!" (LA Times rundown here.) Now Robert Gordon and James Kvaal have gone where weaker men fear to tread, taking a...
