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UB Economists Provide Revenue Forecasts to State Comptroller
Tax revenue forecasts by University at Buffalo economist Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., and researchers in UB's Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development may play a major role in future budget negotiations in determining how much the state has to spend. Please see this webpage for entire article: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9317
Dr. Ehrlich quoted in the New York Times:
A column in The New York Times by David Brooks on the need for Republicans to find a presidential candidate who can transcend current political categories and lay out a human-capital agenda cites research conducted by Isaac Ehrlich, SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Economics, who showed that the United States became the richest country because in the 19th and 20th centuries it had the most schooling and the best circumstances to help people develop their own capacities. The article may be read online at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/May07/NYTimesEhrlichOpEd.pdf.
Dr. Ehrlich's mention in the NY Times is based on his recent NBER paper: Isaac Ehrlich, 2007. "The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century," NBER Working Papers 12868, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Downloadable from: http://ideas.repec.org/e/peh1.html, or http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12868.pdf