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In a much-cited 1983 article, the great economist Wassily Leontief worried that the pace of modern technological change is so rapid that many workers, unable to adjust, will simply become obsolete, like horses after the rise of the automobile.
I find myself thinking back to the winter of 2008, when I stole – and used as much as possible – an observation by the economist Larry Summers.
These are key issues in the short term, but, as every economist knows, long-run economic growth is determined mainly by improving productivity.
But many, such as the Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton, have criticized the World Bank’s overall performance.
Its new chief economist is an expert on trade.
Nonetheless, the economist Alex Cobham insists that that curbing such flows should be a high priority.
For them, and for current thinkers like the French economist Thomas Piketty, the economic world consists of two fundamental substances: capital and labor.
The economist Dani Rodrik puts the appeal of populism into focus.
If the late great Argentine economist Raul Prebisch were alive today, he no doubt would wonder whether the world had turned upside down.
The economist Albert O. Hirschman, arguably the most insightful outside observer of Latin American politics in the last half-century, was critical of what he called – borrowing from Flaubert – la rage de vouloir conclure, or the obsession of some Latin American leaders to try to bring everything to an immediate conclusion.
To an economist, Argentina's recovery is no surprise.
According to the economist Marcus Noland, normalized trade relations could increase South Korea’s share of the North’s trade volume to as much as 60%.
The same thing happened to David Ndii, an economist and opposition-affiliated columnist for the Sunday Nation.
This is an inconvenient fact for the progressive economist.
It began as a technical grouping in 2001, when the British economist Jim O’Neill lumped them together (without South Africa) and gave them their catchy name for the sole reason that they were all large, rapidly growing emerging economies.
The Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell once compared a monetary regime to a political constitution, because it establishes the rules of the game.
When the Oxford University economist Tony Atkinson looked at the UK’s economic performance through the lens of inequality, the 1980s, generally considered a strong decade in terms of growth, appeared much worse; and the 1990s, regarded as a low-growth decade, appeared much better.
As for industrial policy, the economist Stephen S. Cohen and I argue in our 2016 book, Concrete Economics, that officials should recognize and capitalize on America’s interlinked communities of producers and their deep institutional knowledge of engineering practices.
World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz has called on China to pursue a beggar-thy-neighbor strategy, never mind that China is a trade surplus country, has large reserves, little debt, and grows at more than 7%.
In early 1998, when I was chief economist of the World Bank, I debated the US Treasury and the IMF concerning Russia.
The Polish economist Michal Kalecki, a co-inventor of Keynesian economics (and a distant relative of mine), predicted this politically motivated ideological reversal with uncanny accuracy back in 1943:“The assumption that a government will maintain full employment in a capitalist economy if it knows how to do it is fallacious.
A powerful bloc is likely to be formed between big business and rentier interests, and they would probably find more than one economist to declare that the situation was manifestly unsound.”
The economist who declared that government policies to maintain full employment were “manifestly unsound” was Milton Friedman.
Right on cue, it is time for the famous Laffer hypothesis – the proposition, identified with the economist Arthur Laffer and “supply-side economics,” that reductions in tax rates are like magic beans: they so stimulate economic growth that total tax revenue (the tax rate times income) goes up rather than down.
Last year, ADB economist Juzhong Zhuang highlighted the contrast between the “growth with equity” that characterized the transformation of the newly industrialized economies in the 1960’s-1970’s and recent experience.
Sadly, to borrow a phrase from the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, that is like wishing that our cats could bark.
The Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman famously argues that the only social responsibility of business is to maximize profits.
To be sure, some critics – including the British economist Dieter Helm – dismiss the possibility that assets can become stranded.
The second was the announcement that Yale University economist William Nordhaus will share this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for his work “integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”
One of the EU’s main architects, Jean Monnet, a French diplomat and economist, spent much of World War II in Washington, DC, as a negotiator for the European allies.
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