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updated January 21, 2010
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Economics Professor Examines if Job
Creation Focus is Best for U.S. Economy
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Economics Professor Kevin Christ
examines whether job creation is really in the best long-term interest of
the U.S. economy in his latest op-ed, "Are Jobs Really the Answer?,"
featured by Inside INdiana Business.
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Kevin Christ |
Christ writes: "While jobs will obviously be an important issue this year,
particularly as mid-term elections draw near, it may nevertheless be
worthwhile to consider for a moment whether a myopic focus on jobs is really
in our best long-term interests. The problem with focusing strictly on job
preservation, job creation, and job growth is that we often end up
preserving, creating, and growing the wrong jobs."
Read Christ's op-ed at
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/contributors.asp?id=1638.
Christ, associate professor of economics, specializes in applied
microeconomics/managerial economics, international trade and balance of
payments, industrial organization and history of economic thought. He has
conducted research on the role of public capital in private production and
agency theory and optimal incentive structures. He is teaching courses
during the winter quarter on principles of economics and is helping mentor
senior students' special projects.
View an interview that Christ conducted on this topic with Terre Haute
television station WTWO at
http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=99702.
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