Department of Economics

Professor Hall's Debt Ceiling Research Featured on Futurity.org

George HallGeorge J. Hall

In a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), George J. Hall, professor of economics, and his New York University colleague Thomas J. Sargent calculated the US debt limit for every year between 1776 and 1939, and found that Congress used to promptly repay the nation’s loans.

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Read Hall’s paper in PNAS