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The University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers cheered the consensus in his New York Times blog.
The Harvard economist Greg Mankiw listed some of them in 2009.
Frustrated by the conflicting and hedged advice that he was receiving from his advisers, President Dwight Eisenhower is said to have asked once for a “one-handed economist.”
“There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa,” says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change.
Nearly 12 years ago, Jim O’Neill, then the chief economist for Goldman Sachs, coined the term “BRIC” to describe the “emerging markets” of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
As the American economist Harold Hotelling explained in 1929, those competing for the middle have an “undue tendency … to imitate each other.”
The parallel to Chase’s book today is the 2012 bestseller Why Nations Fail by the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson.
M.V. Lee Badgett, an economist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, presented the initial findings of a study of the economic implications of homophobia in India at a World Bank meeting in March 2014.
While the Fed’s tool kit has been greatly expanded in the last decade, the Fed’s low interest rates and huge balance sheet – and the possibly massive increase in debt, should Trump get his tax cuts – would challenge even the best-trained economist.
As a group, they joined in the adulation of Greenspan, whom one leading economist proclaimed “the greatest central banker who ever lived.”
Rajan is an economist at the University of Chicago and a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
You would not necessarily expect either a Chicago economist or a moderate Republican to treat markets and hyper-globalization with skepticism.
No economist wielding plausible estimates of discount rates and expected benefits would have supported the construction of the Sydney Opera House – or any of the iconic municipal buildings gracing many cities worldwide; utilitarian concrete cubes would have been far more efficient.
It certainly does not account for the power of narratives to shape economic outcomes, as described by the Nobel laureate economist Robert J. Shiller.
For example, if the main driver is the massive influx of Asian labor into globalized trade markets, the growth model put forth by the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow suggests that eventually capital stocks will adjust and the wage rate will rise.
The economist Larry Summers has reintroduced the term “secular stagnation” to describe what awaits us.
In the 1930’s, the economist Alvin Hansen argued that opportunities for new investment in already-rich countries were drying up.
In fact, this “dualism” is one of the oldest and most fundamental concepts in economic development, first articulated in the 1950’s by the Dutch economist J.H. Boeke, who was inspired by his experiences in Indonesia.
In 25 years, according to Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, China’s emissions could be double those of the US, Europe, and Japan combined.
Since November 2011, Italy has been led not by a politician, but by an academic economist and a former European Union commissioner, Mario Monti.
As the economist Marco Fortis points out, Italian family wealth is still, if not for long, second to none in Europe.
In their widely discussed 2012 book Why Nations Fail, the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James A. Robinson emphasize the importance of inclusive political and economic institutions.
According to the economist Angus Deaton’s new book The Great Escape, health is a key.
In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets.
The Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson once commended macroeconomics for having transformed “the pre-war dinosaur into a post-war lizard.”
The World Bank’s chief economist, Justin Lin, openly supports it to speed up structural change in developing nations.
The better analogy is from the 1930’s: in 1933, the year in which Hitler came to power, the world’s most famous economist, John Maynard Keynes, produced a plea for “national self-sufficiency.”
An economist, Orlando Ochoa, explained that rent-seeking dominated the Venezuelan economy.
That is the type of evidence that The Economist was promoting.
The official spin is that Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank economist, was reassigned to prepare her for higher office in 2007, and that the move signals the end of the President’s love affair with IMF-guided neo-liberal reforms.
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