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Jagadeesh Gokhale
Senior Fellow
Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale is recognized internationally as an expert on entitlement reform, labor productivity and compensation, U.S. fiscal policy and the impact of fiscal policy on future generations. He works with Cato's Project on Social Security Choice to develop reforms for programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Gokhale served in 2002 as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Treasury and in 2003 as a visiting scholar with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He was the senior economic adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from 1990 to 2003.
Gokhale has published papers in such top-tier economics journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and in publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Gokhale's book, Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities, coauthored with Kent Smetters, drew widespread attention when it was published by AEI in 2003. His recent analysis of European economies' fiscal condition attracted considerable media attention with the increase in sovereign default risk among Eurozone nations. Gokhale's most recent book Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives, published by the University of Chicago Press (2010), challenges received notions about that program's financial future and explores the implications of alternative reforms for the program as a whole and for today's and future generations of Americans.
Gokhale holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and is currently a member of the Social Security Advisory Board.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
E-Mail: jgokhale@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities (AEI Press, 2003)
Cato Studies
"Social Security's Financial Outlook and Reforms: An Independent Evaluation," Working Paper no. 6, October 25, 2011.
"The New Health Care Law's Effect on State Medicaid Spending: A Study of the Five Most Populous States," White Paper no. 31, April 6, 2011.
"Estimating ObamaCare's Effect on State Medicaid Expenditure Growth," Working Paper no. 4, January 11, 2011.
"Globalization: Curse or Cure? Policies to Harness Global Economic Integration to Solve Our Economic Challenge," Policy Analysis no. 659, February 1, 2010.
"Would a Stricter Fed Policy and Financial Regulation Have Averted the Financial Crisis?," by Peter Van Doren and Jagadeesh Gokhale, Policy Analysis no. 648, October 8, 2009.
Articles and Newsletters
"The Effect of Federal Health Care 'Reform' on Kansas General Fund Medicaid Expenditures," by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Angelca C. Erickson, Kansas Policy Institute, June 2011.
"Projecting Oklahoma's Medicaid Expenditure Growth under the PPACA," by Jagadeesh Gokhale, Angela C. Erickson, and Jason Sutton, J.D, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, May 18, 2011.
"The Impact of ObamaCare on Nevada's Medicaid Spending," by Jagadeesh Gokhale, Angela C. Erickson, and Geoffrey Larence, Nevada Policy Research Institute Analysis, May 5, 2011.
"Estimating ObamaCare's Effect on State Medicaid Expenditure Growth: A Study of Five Most Populous U.S. States," Cato Working Paper, Number 4, Winter 2011.
"Final Notice: Medicaid Crisis - A Forecast of Texas' Medicaid Expenditures Growth," The Texas Public Policy Foundation, December 2010.
Opinion and Commentary
"Spending Can Be Cut Our Way, Or Europe's," philly.com, January 20, 2012
"Rhode Island's Pension Debt Worse Than Admitted," Providence Journal, October 25, 2011
"Social Security Ponzi Scheme? Perhaps, but That's Not the Problem," Huffington Post, September 20, 2011
"Ignore Costly, Unneeded Plan," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 2011
"President Obama's Jobs Dilemma," Huffington Post, September 7, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"The 2011 Social Security Trustees Report — Harbinger of Bad News ," May 13, 2011
"Response to Joe Weisenthal’s Critique of My Politico Opinion Piece," April 20, 2011
"When Too Much Money's the Problem...," April 10, 2011
"Why Should Social Insurance Reform Not Affect Those Over Age 54?," April 6, 2011
"Debt Commission Reform Proposals – What Are Their Chances?," November 11, 2010
Events
"Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives," June 7, 2010 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives," May 27, 2010 [Book Forum]
"Medicaid's Soaring Costs: Time to Step on the Brakes," July 19, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"24th Annual Monetary Conference: Federal Reserve Policy in the Face of Crises," November 16, 2006 [Conference]
"The Trouble with Medicaid," September 9, 2005 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
Speeches and Testimony
"Estimating the Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Kansas Medicaid Expenditures, November 9, 2011
"Mandatory Retirement Age Rules: Is It Time To Re-evaluate?" September 9, 2004
"The Future of Retirement in the United States," January 22, 2004
Multimedia
Jagadeesh Gokhale on the Rhode Island pension reform plan on WPRO (November 1, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 35:22]
After Downgrade, White House Pushes Tax Hike (August 8, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 05:53]
The Debt Deal That Doesn't (August 3, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 07:43]
On Debt Ceiling, Congress Defers Tough Decisions (August 2, 2011) [Cato Video, 02:14]
Gang of Six Plan Short on Fiscal Constraints (July 20, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 09:15]
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