Fortunately, the folks at the American Institute of Economic Research have resurrected the idea.
According to Chen Miao, an economist with the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, a similar cash-handout scheme in Japan resulted in only 30% of recipients spending more than they had already planned.
There is perhaps a more fundamental point, made this morning by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - which is that one of the main reasons the government can borrow more cheaply than for a century is that the economy is so weak that investors expect interest rates to remain incredibly low for years.
Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said there had been a long history of youth unemployment in the UK, but it had got considerably worse in the last couple of years.
Hard on the heels of this report came some damaging headlines based on research presented to the Royal Economic Society's annual conference by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
The other view, perhaps expressed most eloquently by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, is that the government's low borrowing costs are a manifestation of the UK's economic stagnation and lousy growth prospects (see here).
Businesses in Germany "anticipate a clear revival in exports, " said Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
This tax buoyancy is set to continue, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
The Foreign Office has commissioned a report on the impact of the immigration from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Martin Weale, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, told the BBC that the government's view was "on the optimistic side".
The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
Angus Armstrong, of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a former senior Treasury official, suggests this could help remove any doubt.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said the UK was on the brink of its first full year of recession since 1991.
Last year, a study by the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) also suggested undergraduates completing the Welsh Bacc fare less well at university than those who have not.
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By contrast, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research foresaw in July that the saving ratio would rise to 6.1% this year and 8.9% in 2010, resulting in a further fall in consumer spending next year, of 1.1%.
Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, told the BBC that people "coming from outside the UK, and especially people coming from outside the European Union, are significantly less likely than British nationals, and people born here, to claim benefits".
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The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
Dr. Edmans is a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
The annual bill to German taxpayers of the additional borrowing costs could eventually reach 1.9% of German GDP, according to Kai Carstensen of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.
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"Without the U.S. market, the survival of Kim Jong Il's economic policy could be in jeopardy, " says economist Yoon Duk Ryong of the Korea Economic Research Institute.
Careful work by Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research looked at student achievement in Georgia as its pre-K program phased in.
On average that'll just cover a typical rent in the county and nothing else, says Doug Hall, the director of Economic Analysis and Research Network for the Economic Policy Institute.
But Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the Ifo economic research institute at Munich University, is much more upbeat.
"Korea is going to surprise the world, " enthuses Lee, president of the Daewoo Economic Research Institute in Seoul.
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Growth is projected to reach 3% of GDP in 2011, says Kopint-Tarki, an economic research institute, and the government's budget-deficit target of 2.9% of GDP for 2011 is achievable.
The ZEW economic research institute's gauge of expectations for Germany, based on a poll of 300 analysts and investors, fell to -41.4, from -40.7 in April.
Indeed, says Stephen Bond of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic research group, it is far from clear that Mr Brown's package will make much difference to investment or productivity, even though the capital gains tax reform is likely to encourage more new firms to be formed.
"Japan has probably already started falling into an economic lull in the second half of the year, " said Yoshimasa Maruyama from Itochu Economic Research institute in Tokyo.
Dr Arkhom Termpittayapaisith , Secretary-General of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and of the Research and Development Institute of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (RSEPF) will deliver the keynote lecture.
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