Robert J. Barro is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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Commentaries by Robert J. Barro
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Popes, Saints, and Religious Competition
CAMBRIDGE – The election of the first non-European pope is long overdue. After all, Pope Francis’s native region, Latin America, is currentl…
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Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff
CAMBRIDGE – One of the many things I learned from Milton Friedman is that the true cost of government is its spending, not its taxes. To put…
Popes, Saints, and Religious Competition
Arinze Nwokolo: Dear Professor, Actually, the creation of saints has nothing to do with retaining the faithful or competing with evangelicals. I agree that saints do inspire Catholics since they are examples we co…
Popes, Saints, and Religious Competition
MK Anon: interesting facts in a jelly of speculations