Ed Dolan

Edwin G. Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at  Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, George Mason University and Gettysburg College. From 1990 to 2001, Dolan taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. After 2001, he taught economics in several European countries, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and 15 years of annual courses at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Ed Dolan posts

Commentary
Captured Economy

Why a war on the trade deficit won't reindustrialize America

10 Apr 2025 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Social policy for a low-fertility future

17 Mar 2025 Ed Dolan
Commentary

Could a new misery index help explain the election outcome?

12 Dec 2024 Ed Dolan
Commentary
State Capacity

The numbers show governments that follow the law are actually stronger

18 Sep 2024 Ed Dolan
Studies
State Capacity

Good data on good government: Reformers should take note as political philosophy meets statistics

20 May 2024 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Redefining poverty: A response to conservative critics

12 Feb 2024 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Demand, supply, and the perils of unbalanced healthcare reform

24 Oct 2023 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Why we need a rule-based fiscal policy and what it might look like

22 May 2023 Ed Dolan
Media

Op-Ed: How to juggle corporate political activity with stakeholder goals

21 Mar 2023 Allison Herren Lee, Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Does targeting supercore inflation make sense?

16 Mar 2023 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

The inflation of 2021-22 was different: what we should learn from it

30 Jan 2023 Ed Dolan
Media
Social Policy

Op-Ed: Confused about inflation? Check your dashboard!

22 Dec 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

The latest Phillips Curve data show no return to stagflation

19 Dec 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
State Capacity

The puzzle of COVID and state capacity

15 Nov 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Open Society
State Capacity

Why perestroika failed

14 Sep 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Two cheers for Carter's anti-inflation efforts

08 Jul 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Maybe inflation will be transitory after all

25 May 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
Social Policy

Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest. Why and what to do about it.

05 May 2022 Ed Dolan
Commentary
State Capacity
Health

Trust, state capacity, and the epidemiological mystery of Covid

28 Apr 2022 Ed Dolan
Studies
Climate and Energy

Are Economists Wrong About Carbon Pricing?

24 Mar 2022 Ed Dolan
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