Jason Furman
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
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Integration of behavioral science into public policy has so far proceeded from available tools toward problems rather than the reverse.
But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.
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Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.
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But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.
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Integration of behavioral science into public policy has so far proceeded from available tools toward problems rather than the reverse.
But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.
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Behavioral science can matter more in policymaking if practitioners start from large-scale economic questions and develop complementary insights.
Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.
Applying Behavioral Sciences in the Service of Four Major Economic Problems Said 1 Oct 2016
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Recommends The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
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- Political business cycle models are premised on politicians doing big fiscal expansions every election year. Yet we couldn’t get Congress to do in 2010 (when Dems overwhelmingly controlled) and it was desperately needed. And Senate Rs wouldn’t in 2024. 15 Oct 2026
- The Federal minimum wage was effectively repealed over the last 17 years. 15 Oct 2026
- The United States is having an extraordinary record year for exports. Exports of nonmonetary gold. 10 Oct 2026
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- This is excellent. I would add one more thing: if the paper is based on public time series data it should contain a section that updates as new data is released including testing the conclusions out of sample. 8 Oct 2026
- Hard to ignore a q from @ProfDavidDeming. From 2006 to 2025 (the longest window with broad coverage) women's employment rates in the US increased by much less than in almost any country. That is true for women with or without children as well as for women with younger children. 8 Oct 2026
- In 2025 just five companies (Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle) were responsible for 37 percent of the global capex of the top 100 U.S.-listed nonfinancial companies. The last time investment was that concentrated was the early 1970s, when AT&T reigned supreme. 8 Oct 2026
- This is what crowd out looks like. 8 Oct 2026
- It is worth reflecting on the fact that changes in employment rates over time & across countries are *larger* than many of the projections for AI. One case in point: The US has gone from having much higher employment than other rich countries to slightly lower. 8 Oct 2026
- You would have no idea that we went through COVID or are going through AI from the labor market data. The employment rate has fallen from 61.0% in 2019-Q4 to 59.1% in 2026-Q3. That is a bit more than aging only would have caused and a bit less than CBO expected. 6 Oct 2026
- China goods imports as a share of total U.S. imports. Note the share is now below what it was prior to PNTR. 4 Oct 2026
- Good paper, accords with the view of just about everyone in 2000 who thought the biz community was 100% sure that NTR would continue (as it had for decades). This graph is a quantification of that--how much the gap/danger of non-renewal mattered. Little by 2000. 4 Oct 2026
- Some empirical perspectives on some of the empirical debates in economics. Start with @DAcemogluMIT, Johnson and Robinson on institutions and growth. Their cites have always massively dwarfed cites for @albouy's criticism of their data choices. 4 Oct 2026
- Trump is Washington’s biggest trade hawk when it comes to Canada. But arguably he is Washington’s biggest trade dove when it comes to China. 4 Oct 2026
- I loved this discussion with @ProfDavidDeming 4 Oct 2026
- If you want to argue that one of the most cited papers in policy discussions in the last 15 yrs had no impact then what does that say about every other policy paper? It was VERY discussed by thoughtful policy people under Obama and shifted a lot of views and some policy. 4 Oct 2026
- One of the most consequential and thoughtful economic policymakers of last 30+ years--@genebsperling --is now on Substack, I subscribed. 8 Jul 2026
- Terrific testimony, worth reading. 8 Jul 2026
- Jobs day: 57K jobs added in June (111K average for last three months), less than expected but probably more than breakeven. Unemployment rate fell to 4.2%, has been stable for 2 years now, but participation and employment rates fell. Wage growth picked up. 2 Jul 2026
- This is the cut of the data that had people especially worried about inflation after this week's PCE infaltion release. 28 Jun 2026
- PCE-based ecumenical underlying inflation measure was 3.5% in May. As most metrics are highly elevated. 25 Jun 2026
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- Macroeconomic Effects of the 2017 Tax Reform 1 Jan 2018 We use a cost-of-capital framework to analyze the long-run steady state and transition path for GDP as a result of the 2017 tax law.We predict that, for the law as written, the long-run increase in corporate productivit…
- Applying Behavioral Sciences in the Service of Four Major Economic Problems 1 Jan 2016 Behavioral scientists have developed a powerful tool kit for understanding individual decisionmaking and have embedded it in a framework that acknowledges the need for robust experimentation to determine optimal public…
- Economic Crises: Evidence and Insights from East Asia 1 Jan 1998 Presents information on the financial crisis in East Asia. Causes of the crisis; Contrasting perspectives on East Asia's miracle and crisis; Economic impact of the financial and capital account liberalization of the 198…
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