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The challenge ahead has been presented by Harvard economist Dani Rodrik in the form of a trilemma: when it comes to democracy, national sovereignty, and globalization, we can have any two, but never all three.
As the economist Mark Cooper has put it, nuclear power is actually undergoing a “renaissance in reverse.”
The recently deceased economist Steven Klepper argued that industries tend to cluster in particular cities simply because new firms are formed mainly by workers who leave other successful firms, taking the relevant tacit knowledge with them.
India has been so deeply mired in political paralysis that the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen recently said that the country has “fallen from being the second best to the second worst” South Asian country, and that it is currently “no match for China” on social indicators.
Stanley Fischer, a brilliant, experienced economist will lead the Fund very well in the interim.
This is more women than will “graduate from college, receive a diagnosis of cancer, or file for divorce,” according to the economist Elizabeth Warren .
Back then, the Nobel laureate economist Gary Becker could write that in a competitive market, discrimination was impossible; the market would bid up the wage of anyone who was underpaid.
So did a director of a great bank, a brilliant economist, when he was suspected of financial crimes.
A model of growth that the economist Tyler Cowen has called “cell phones instead of automobile factories” raises the obvious question: How do people in the developing world afford to purchase cell phones in the first place?
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter attributed the boom-and-bust cycles of the 19th century to periodic bursts of "creative destruction" followed by lulls in innovative activity.
China’s Evolving WebHONG KONG – In a recent article, the economist Axel Leijonhufvud defines the market system as a web of contracts.
The theory of “rare disaster risk” has progressed considerably in recent years, owing to the work of the Harvard economist Robert Barro.
Following this intuition, Justin Yifu Lin, the former chief economist of the World Bank, has suggested that when countries choose what to do next, they should look at a successful country that was similar to them two decades ago.
Faced with contrary behavior, the economist reacts like the tailor who blames the customer for not fitting their newly tailored suit.
In 1940, immediately after the fall of France to the Germans, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote to a correspondent: “Speaking for myself I now feel completely confident for the first time that we will win the war.”
In the seventeenth century, the economist and investor Sir William Petty was tasked with surveying large swaths of army land, much of which lay fallow, in Ireland.
British economist Nicholas Stern has argued for policy intervention to prevent investors from earning higher short-term profits by pricing carbon at zero (which implies a collective long-term bet on unsustainable increases in global temperatures).
Such strong incentives to hoard rather than spend can keep demand low and falling, and unemployment high and rising, for a much longer time than even the most laissez-faire-oriented politician or economist had ever dared contemplate.
The economist Luca Benati has identified such surges of underlying inflation in the last decades before World War I, the late 1930’s, the late 1960’s, and the 1970’s.
In Latin America, that means an economist who worries about growth, employment, and exports, as well as about balancing the budget and paying debts.
The Belgian economist Robert Triffin first identified this problem – dubbed the “Triffin dilemma” – in the 1960s, emphasizing the fundamental conflict between national objectives, such as limiting the size of the external deficit, and international imperatives, such as creating enough liquidity to satisfy demand for reserve assets.
Paul Krugman and the Obama RecoveryNEW YORK – For several years, and often several times a month, the Nobel laureate economist and New York Times columnist and blogger Paul Krugman has delivered one main message to his loyal readers: deficit-cutting “austerians” (as he calls advocates of fiscal austerity) are deluded.
Larry Summers, now the highly influential director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, concluded as a young economist that “financial and monetary shocks are less important sources of depression than we had suspected.”
British economist Willem Buiter has bluntly accused central banks and treasury officials of “regulatory capture” by the financial sector, particularly in the US.
The Trouble With Interest RatesBERKELEY – Of all the strange and novel economic doctrines propounded since the beginning of the global financial crisis, the one put forward by John Taylor, an economist at Stanford, has a good claim to being the oddest.
They have the added benefit of generating what the economist Amar Bhidé calls venturesome consumption: demand-led entrepreneurship and innovation.
This point is the key to a better understanding of Chinese governance today, which the economist Chenggang Xu aptly describes as a “regionally decentralized authoritarian system.”
Yet, in 2014, Lomborg commissioned a study by an economist that, with another narrow CBA, came to the same – if not discredited, at least debated – conclusion favoring investment in primary education over higher education.
The economist Stefan Kawalec has explicitly referred to the current policy mix in the eurozone as “currency manipulation.”
The economist Thomas Piketty has observed that the nation-state facilitated the development of the “social state”: the system of services that strengthens equality and improves quality of life.
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