Out about jason, so i went to rate my professors. Com. Indicatione is any about how the students feel about him, i can tell he is well loved. Im going to review a few comments. One student wrote, dr. Silverman is an amazing professor. He lectures, but they are far from boring. You will need to read for the test because he doesnt cover everything for the book. You also have to attend class, because every day is something new. Another wrote, this class is not easy, but if you are struggling, go talk to him and he will tell you to take notes. He is very helpful. [laughter] a number of students remarked that he always begins class with a joke. One of the students wrote, most are dirty, but funny. , youve gotrn you to be careful when you ask questions during the queue and day, because one student wrote, i would kill for this man, literally. ,nd finally, a few years ago one student called him the best professor at winthrop. For a 52yearold man, he is too. Damn hot, welcomingjoin me in dr. Ja
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He is an economist and also a senior fellow at the George Washington institute of public policy. Dr. Singer, in a recent paper that you coauthored, the curious absence of Economic Analysis at the federal communications position, an agency in search of a mission is the title, you write that the fcc is often an economicsfree zone. What do you mean by that . Guest what i mean theyre not taking economics into consideration making policy decisions. Theyre instead relying on noneconomic evidence, the popular whims and fancies of the day, to reach decisions that have tremendous economic import. Cspan has it always been that way . Guest it hasnt always been that way. That is what the paper is about. We chart ebb and flow of economic influence offer time. Weve been in periods like this before. This is not the first time that economics has been really gated to something well below the 8th floor, but we havent seen something in recent history as weve seen under the wheeler fcc. Cspan you write of
Trends. This is cohosted by the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy, just getting underway. Offer solutions t economic ad social policy research. We havent assiduously pursuing this mission since 1968 when president johnson created urban to help if i weight programs and strategies aimed at improving the quality of life in central cities. And we bring expertise and research on the impacts of housing and policy in community developers, the Financial Capacity of families, insights about state and local governments, finance, and we work with policy makers in translating identifying policy problems and helping them develop policy solutions. So todays forum represents a convergence of our mission in expertise and leadership of our partner, the Lincoln Land Institute. On the going concern about municipal physical health and the connection to the housing crisis, and through the two Panel Conversations we will explore how the housing crisis in particular has affected the Fi
Thank you very much, erika. And thank you to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy, putting together such a terrific program took excited to be here to talk with some my work with my coauthors at ucla and uc berkeley. First i wanted to take a couple minutes just to explain why my paper is different from the previous paper that was discussed. First our unit of analysis is typically when i look at these tiscali standardized cities but looking at cities just as they exist. We are not capturing these differences that andy laid out between baltimore and tampa but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe think about physically standardized cities as a people who live in the city center paying taxes and receiving services. We think about the decisionmakers in these cities. Our time. Is different. They are interested in the period after the Housing Market bust and we are interested in the boom. Also our measure where interested is hou