Edwin G. Dolan is an economist and educator with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Early in his career, he was a member of the economics faculty at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University. From 1990 to 2001, he 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. Since 2001, he has taught at several universities in Europe, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has an ongoing annual visiting appointment. During breaks in his teaching career, he worked in Washington, D.C. as an economist for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and as a regulatory analyst for the Interstate Commerce Commission, and later served a stint in Almaty as an adviser to the National Bank of Kazakhstan. When not lecturing abroad, he makes his home in Washington’s San Juan Islands.

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Recent Blog Posts by Ed Dolan

• Economic Follies of the 1960s Echo in the 2012 Presidential Campaign May 25th, 2012
• Inflation is Quiet, So Why are People Still Feeling its Pain? May 18th, 2012
• How the Latin Triangle Swallowed the Euro May 11th, 2012
• Looking for the Good News in the April Jobs Report May 5th, 2012
• Fracking and the Environment: An Economic Perspective May 4th, 2012
• US GDP Data: Private Sector Grows 2.8% in Q1 2012, Government Continues to Shrink April 28th, 2012
• The Charitable Deduction as a Tax Expenditure: What it Buys and What to Do About It (Part 2) April 27th, 2012
• The Charitable Deduction as a Tax Expenditure: What it Buys and What to Do About It (Part 1) April 20th, 2012
• Latest Inflation Data Show Little Sign that Gasoline Prices are Derailing the Recovery April 14th, 2012
• What Happened When Poland’s Fixed Exchange Rate Experiment Failed: Lessons for a Euro Divorce April 13th, 2012
• Latest Jobs Data Show Employment Ratio Remains Low: Why Legalizing Marijuana Would Help it Recover April 6th, 2012
• U.S. Domestic Income Grows Strongly in Q4 2011, Outpacing Growth of GDP March 31st, 2012
• How to Protect Wetlands and How Not to Do it: Lessons from Tax Policy March 28th, 2012
• Please, Secretary Chu, Retract your Retraction. High Gas Prices are Good. You Were Right the First Time. March 16th, 2012
• February Jobs Market Report Shows Across the Board Strength March 9th, 2012
• Finally, Proof (Real Proof, not Just Data) of What Inflation Has Done to Our Economy March 8th, 2012
• Latest Data Suggest Output Gap is Closing but Employment Gap is Closing Faster February 29th, 2012
• When Does ‘It Will Hurt the Poor’ Outweigh ‘It’s Good for the Environment?’ February 24th, 2012
• Updated Seasonal Factors Remove Much of the Volatility from 2011 Monthly CPI Data February 18th, 2012
• Reforming the Payroll Tax: We Need More Than Another Temporary Cut. We Need a Permanent Fix February 14th, 2012
• Latest Economic Data Begin to Shift the Counterfactual in Favor of Democrats February 6th, 2012
• What Happened to Corporate Tax Reform? February 2nd, 2012
• Faster GDP Growth Will Be Welcome News for the White House, Despite “Ifs” and “Buts” in the Details January 27th, 2012
• Controversy over Romney’s Taxes Underlines the Need for Broad Reform January 23rd, 2012
• U.S. Inflation Indicators Come in Below Target as the Global Economy Begins to Slow January 19th, 2012
• Court’s Latest Stay of Clean Air Regulations Shows the Best Can Be the Enemy of the Good January 12th, 2012
• Best Jobs Report in a Long Time Leads Off the Election Season January 6th, 2012
• Why the Russian Economy Is No Longer a Big Plus for Putin January 3rd, 2012
• Best Economics News Story of 2011: Dickens Meets Hayek in a Mumbai Slum December 31st, 2011
• Linking Keystone XL to the Payroll Tax Only Shows Why we Need a Real Energy Policy December 22nd, 2011
• Latest Price Data Show US on Brink of Deflation as World Economy Slows December 16th, 2011
• What Do the Russian Protesters Want? One Observer’s View of Problems and Needed Reforms December 11th, 2011
• Can New Fiscal Rules Save the Euro? Three Details to Watch For December 6th, 2011
• Afghanistan’s Economic Future, Aid, and the Curse of Riches December 1st, 2011
• Downward Revision of US GDP Strengthens Case for New Stimulus November 25th, 2011
• On Technical Barriers to Leaving the Euro and Learning from Others’ Experience November 20th, 2011
• Easing Inflation Pressure Gives Fed Extra Room to Maneuver in Face of Euro Crisis November 16th, 2011
• Understanding the New View of Poverty (2): What Helps and What Hurts November 14th, 2011
• Understanding the New View of Poverty (1): The Erosion of Stereotypes November 8th, 2011
• October Job Growth Still Slow but Details Hold a Bit of Good News November 5th, 2011
• NGDP Targeting is the Natural Heir to Monetarism November 3rd, 2011
• Can Spaceship Earth Carry Seven Billion Passengers, and More to Come? October 30th, 2011
• US GDP Growth Stronger in Q3 as Economy Enters Expansion October 27th, 2011
• Only Economists Can Save the Planet October 24th, 2011
• The Senate’s Currency Manipulation Bill Is Not Only Bad Policy, but Unnecessary October 12th, 2011
• What the Wall Street Protesters Want: An Economic Commentary on the “Contract for the American Dream.” October 6th, 2011
• How Gordon Brown Saved Britain from the Euro and Why that Makes him a Hero October 2nd, 2011
• Natural Gas Flaring, Carbon Taxes, and the Risk of Alien Invasion September 29th, 2011
• The UBS-Adoboli Scandal Shows the Problem of Negatively Skewed Risk is Still With Us September 20th, 2011
• U.S. Working-Age Poverty Hits a Record High: What it Means for the Budget Debate September 13th, 2011
• Why Rolling Back Environmental Protection is the Wrong Fix for Jobs September 11th, 2011
• How Germany Free-Rides on the Euro August 28th, 2011
• Why Rick Perry’s Position on Climate Change Makes Him a True Conservative August 18th, 2011
• US Employment-Population Ratio Hits a New Low: Why it Matters for the Budget Debate August 7th, 2011
• How Smart Fiscal Rules Keep Sweden’s Budget in Balance July 31st, 2011
• How Intelligent Budget Rules Help Chile Prosper: Lessons for the US July 24th, 2011
• Is a 56.2 MPG Fuel Economy Standard Really a Good Idea? July 15th, 2011
• Yes, The U.S. Needs Fiscal Policy Rules, but Not Hatch-Lee July 10th, 2011
• If QE2 Was Price-Level Targeting, It is Starting to Work June 17th, 2011
• One Year Later, How Much has China’s Yuan Appreciated? June 13th, 2011
• Failure of Austerity in Europe? What Does the Latvian Exception Prove? May 26th, 2011
• Will Shifting Political Winds Finally Kill Ethanol Subsidies? May 18th, 2011
• Are Financial Regulators Flying Blind? Would Better “Risk Topography” Help? May 12th, 2011
• The Ecosocialist Critique of Capitalism vs. Real World Socialism April 29th, 2011
• What Can We Learn About the Ryan Medicare Plan from the German Experience? April 22nd, 2011
• Is Tax Reform on the Table, or Not? April 15th, 2011
• Will Central Banks Accommodate the Oil Price Shock? March 25th, 2011
• Move Over Ethanol, Market Forces Favor CNG as a Gasoline Replacement March 17th, 2011
• What Can the U.S. Learn from the French Health Care System? March 10th, 2011
• How a Price-Smoothing Oil Tax Could Help Make This the Last Oil Price Crisis March 2nd, 2011
• What Can the U.S. Learn from Other Countries’ Health Care Systems? March 1st, 2011
• How Chronic Budget Optimism Helped Dig the Hole We’re In February 22nd, 2011
• A Policy Dilemma: Budget Deficit vs. Infrastructure Deficit February 14th, 2011
• Could an Obscure Loophole Cause the Euro to Go the Way of the Ruble? February 1st, 2011