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Under its capable managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and distinguished chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, it has been a voice for sanity on global fiscal stimulus in the midst of much cacophony.
Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day?CAMBRIDGE – More than a decade ago, I undertook a study, together with Graciela Kaminsky of George Washington University and Carlos Végh, now the World Bank’s chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, examining more than 100 countries’ fiscal policies for much of the postwar era.
Having served as the IMF’s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund’s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers.
The late Chicago-school economist George Stigler would have described the IMF’s role in Europe as reflecting acute “regulatory capture.”
When the British economist John Maynard Keynes anticipated the “euthanasia of the rentier” in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, he was referring to a financial class that served no purpose other than to exploit scarce capital for its own benefit.
A recent study by Cambridge University economist Robert Rowthorn, however, has shown that this argument is full of holes.
Trump-style Politics Comes to IndiaPHILADELPHIA – The decision by the widely respected economist Raghuram Rajan not to seek a second term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI, the central bank) is likely to roil India’s financial markets, which regarded him as a critical anchor for the country’s economy.
But, as the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has repeatedly pointed out, the neoliberal obsession with unfettered markets failed to account for the distributive costs of efficiency gains.
If we are, as the economist Robert Gordon argues, experiencing a slowdown in productivity-enhancing technological innovation, long-term potential growth would be constrained.
To an economist, the problem is obvious: polluters are not paying the full costs of the damage they cause.
According to the French economist Thomas Piketty, income inequality rises when the return on capital exceeds economic growth, meaning that, by itself, faster economic growth would reduce inequality.
“You are more Keynesian than I am,” he once told a young American economist.
And that process begins early: as the Nobel laureate economist James Heckman has shown, education of young children has a significant impact on productivity.
But Powell might face skepticism for his lack of academic training as an economist.
Like Yellen, Taylor is an eminent economist with an impressive record both in academic research and as a practitioner of macroeconomic policy.
In fact, he is the sixth most widely cited monetary economist, owing his renown especially to the Taylor rule, a guideline for setting interest rates in response to observed inflation and growth.
As the Japanese economist Ryuichiro Tachi has pointed out, Japan also benefited from a high savings rate and a low capital coefficient (the ratio of capital to output) of less than 1.
Nobel laureate economist Robert Schiller defines a narrative as a “simple story or easily expressed explanation of events.”
Economists around the world have taken note of the arrival of Raghuram Rajan as chief economist in the finance ministry.
Rajan is a superstar academic researcher, a brilliant writer on political economy, and a former chief economist for the IMF.
As an economist, I am pleased that the NSS has given substantial attention to the economic aspects of US national security.
The University of Louvain economist Frédéric Docquier and his colleagues have been researching the economic impact that immigrants from developing countries have on host-country budgets, wages, and consumer markets.
Ben Bernanke, the nominee to replace Alan Greenspan this month as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, is a highly capable economist who has devoted his professional life to understanding the historical role of central banks and the problems that they have faced.
Bernanke made his name as an economist by analyzing the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930’s – good expertise to have, since preventing such disasters is a central bank head’s most important job.
Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman and US Tea Party icon Ron Paul are diametrically opposed on virtually every issue but Bitcoin (both deeply dislike it).
In the words of a renowned health economist, Victor Fuchs of Stanford University, "National health insurance will probably come to the United States after a major change in the political climate, the kind of change that often accompanies a war, a depression, or large-scale civil unrest."
China’s Institutional ChallengeHONG KONG – Last month, the Nobel laureate economist Douglass North, who applied economic theory to history to gain insight into institutional and social change, died at his home in Michigan.
Yet, according to the political economist Moeletsi Mbeki, at his core, “Zuma is a conservative.”
As a staff economist at the Fed in the 1970s, I witnessed first-hand the birth of the Great Inflation – and the role played by inept central banking in creating it.
“If something cannot go on forever,” as the economist Herbert Stein famously put it, “it will stop.”
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