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CAMBRIDGE – With China set to lead a new $50 billion international financial institution, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the debate has centered on the United States’ futile efforts to discourage other advanced economies from joining.
Nonetheless, an important legacy of the earlier system has remained: each of the regional banks maintains its own research department, and brings a different approach to the monetary-policy debate.
Whereas staff economists from the Federal Reserve System brought differing perspectives to the monetary-policy debate, their Canadian counterparts seemed to subscribe to a single “Bank of Canada view.”
Two independent reviews of the Bank of England published in the wake of the global financial crisis found a similar lack of intellectual diversity and robust debate.
In the US, both presumptive nominees for the presidency – the Democrats’ Hillary Clinton and the Republicans’ Donald Trump – have espoused anti-trade views, with Trump projecting a mercantilist approach unseen in mainstream US political debate since before World War II.
But the debate about which policies could boost demand remains inadequate, evasive, and confused.
But the debate about it is riddled with confusions.
Somewhere in the middle there is an optimal policy – a common-sense proposition that is often missing from the debate.
Recently the debate has shifted to carbon emissions.
But another finding has also started to influence the current debate on growth: poor people within a country are less happy than rich people.
Neither Ukraine nor the West would benefit from escalating the conflict – a point worth emphasizing in view of the debate in US foreign-policy circles (and beyond) in recent months about whether to supply Ukraine’s government with lethal military aid.
To return to the path of innovative integration, the EU needs a new framework for public debate that underpins effective cooperation among partners and friends, instead of fueling conflict among seemingly irreconcilable rivals.
That is why a public debate that considers only two extreme scenarios – imposed integration or absolute national sovereignty – is misleading and dangerous.
In the trade debate, we have had the International Monetary Fund, US President Barack Obama, and the OECD – quite apart from the UK Treasury – telling Britons that a vote to leave would be bad for the economy.
Harmonizing Europe’s ElectionsMADRID – The European Union is in the midst of a far-reaching debate about its future role.
A crucial feature of the debate is the official estimate of the number of individuals who would lose their health insurance under the various plans that have been proposed to repeal and replace the existing Affordable Care Act (better known as “Obamacare”).
This debate has raged underground ever since Mexico’s collapse in 1995.
That debate has gone on, right to a recent conference in Singapore which gave the Mahatir/Stiglitz team a resounding victory capped by a standing ovation from a crowd of top Asian top businessmen.
So the fierce debate over whether to increase the size of American ground forces in Iraq is beside the point.
Revenge of the ExpertsBERKELEY – The Brexit debate is an endless source of mirth for anyone with a dark sense of humor.
Race relations in the US have been for decades - and remain - at the center of political debate, to the point that racial cleavages are as important as income, if not more, as determinants of political preferences and attitudes.
Furthermore, as I pointed out at a recent Intelligence Squared US debate in New York, the law may actually have a negative effect on research and development, which is a key driver of long-term growth in the US.
For years, there was a serious debate in China about the state’s proper role in economic affairs.
In mid-February, the Organization of American States criticized his abusive language in television broadcasts that chilled public debate.
Such are the EMU’s benefits that the visible costs of remaining a non-member are beginning to recast the political debate surrounding euro adoption in several countries.
Better Learning Through Better BettingPHILADELPHIA – The course of public debate has become depressingly familiar.
Ideally, a bet would use a question as big as the debate it means to settle.
This approach, using question clusters, could be applied to virtually any important debate.
But, whatever the difficulties, the quality of public debate stands to benefit enormously from well-structured wagers.
It has brought to public debate crucial empirical detail and a simple but useful analytical framework.
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