Lee E. Ohanian


Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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Published Works

  • Selected Papers
  • Books
  • Other Papers
  • Working Papers
  • Op-Ed Articles
  • Interviews, Lectures, and Videos
  • Economic Crisis
  • Great Depression
  • Congressional Testimony

Other Websites

  • UCLA Economics Department
  • Minneapolis Fed
  • Leigh Speakers Bureau
  • NBER
  • UCLA Course Websites
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  • Center for Advanced Study for Economic Efficiency
  • Hoover Institution

  • “California's Solar Rooftop Mandate Doesn't Make Economic Sense”, San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2018.


  • “What in the Sam Hill Are Cows Doing on Sand Hill Road?”, Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2017.


  • “My Kingdom for a Renewable Energy Source”, Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2017.


  • “What Adds Up, and What Doesn’t, in Trump’s Plan for Economy”, San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2016.


  • “How the Golden State Lost Its Luster”, Mercury News, July 11, 2016.


  • “U.S. Needs A President Who Understands Benefits Of Free Trade”, Investors, April 4, 2016.


  • “4% Economic Growth? Yes, We Can Achieve That”, Investors, September 3, 2015.


  • “U.S. Income Inequality Isn't Soaring, It's Falling”, Investors, October 9, 2014.


  • “Behind the Productivity Plunge, Fewer Startups”, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2014.


  • “Why we continue to lose the War on Poverty”, Fox News, January 10, 2014.


  • “U.S. Productivity Growth Has Taken a Dive”, Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2014.


  • “Taxes Are Much Higher Than You Think”, Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2012.


  • “Equality of opportunity, not income, is needed”, The Columbus Dispatch, October 30, 2012.


  • “Payroll Taxes Are 'Regressive'? Time to Rethink That Idea”, Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2012.


  • “Rich Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes—And Then Some”, Investors, July 13, 2012.


  • “Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story”, Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2011.


  • “Fed's Faulty Policies Will Create Inflation, Not Jobs”, Investors, August 23, 2011.


  • “The Bush Tax Cuts Never Went Far Enough”, Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2010.


  • “Solid long-term policies, not quick fixes, needed to turn economy around”, The Arizona Republic, October 9, 2010.


  • “FDR and the Lessons of the Depression”, Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2010.


  • “The Right Way to Raise Wages”, Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2010.


  • “It's Time To Bring Back Jobs”, Forbes, June 29, 2010.


  • “Taxing Like Europe”, Forbes, May 19, 2010.


  • “Another Too Big To Fail Firm”, Forbes, May 11, 2010.


  • “Did Stimulus Create Any Jobs?”, Forbes, February 24, 2010.


  • “A Cure for Unemployment”, Forbes, November 18, 2009.


  • “A Temporary Hiring Tax Credit?”, Forbes, October 21, 2009.


  • “Wages of Depression”, Forbes, September 9, 2009.


  • “How Not to Pay for Healthcare”, Forbes, July 22, 2009.


  • “The Depression Divide”, Forbes, July 15, 2009.


  • “Will Reducing Government Spending Derail the Recovery?”, Forbes, July 8, 2009.


  • “No, Inflation is Not the Key to this Recovery”, Moneywatch.com, July 2, 2009.


  • “Fed Policy on Inflation: As Good As It Gets”, Moneywatch.com, July 1, 2009.


  • “The Fed Fears Deflation More Than Inflation”, Moneywatch.com, June 29, 2009.


  • “How Stimulating is the Stimulus?”, Forbes, June 17, 2009.


  • “The $787 Billion Mistake”, Forbes, June 10, 2009.


  • “Why did the Great Depression Last so Long?”, Forbes, April 30, 2009.


  • “How Government Prolonged the Depression”, with Harold Cole, Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2009.


  • “Obamanomics”, with Tom Cooley, Newsweek, November 14, 2008.


  • “Don’t Raise Capital Gains Taxes”, The American, November 11, 2008.


  • “Good Policies Can Save the Economy”, Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2008.


  • “Financing a War with Iraq”, UCLA Today, November 5, 2002.


  • “MAC Should Limit the Number of Gates That Any One Airline Can Use,” with Art Rolnick,Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1999.


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