Michael Kofoed

Michael Kofoed

Michael S. Kofoed is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics.

Opinion: Why SCOTUS was right to clip the president’s tariff powers
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Michael Kofoed and Scott Condie
The case for low-tech learning
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Michael Kofoed
Opinion: This isn’t the first time America tried steep tariffs to save the day
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Michael Kofoed
Hopeful lessons from this year’s Nobel Prize in economics
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Michael Kofoed
History’s warning to U.S. manipulation of monetary policy
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Michael Kofoed
Perspective: Complaining about the scorekeeper doesn’t help you score more
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Michael Kofoed
Medicaid, work and the problem of the 'benefits cliff'
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Michael Kofoed
Hard truths about government efficiency
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Michael Kofoed
The enduring value of public higher education
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Michael Kofoed
Why fixing the economy might not be as easy as the Trump team thinks
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Michael Kofoed
Institutions aren't perfect. We should defend them anyway
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Michael Kofoed
Rising prices aren't all due to inflation
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Michael Kofoed
The perils of populism, from an economist's point of view
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Michael Kofoed
Perspective: The case for voting by mail
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Michael Kofoed
Ukraine, NATO and game theory
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Michael Kofoed
Congress must reclaim its authority over spending
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Michael Kofoed
Why Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin’s work matters to families
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Michael Kofoed and Olga Stoddard
Perspective: What’s really going on with the economy?
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Michael Kofoed
Opinion: How we can rebuild the fragile blooms of social trust
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Michael Kofoed
The Silicon Valley Bank collapse is a Rorschach test for society and individuals
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Michael Kofoed