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Moreover, by repeatedly calling the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership a “strategic” project, it has politicized the trade deal, which, as the economist Arvind Subramanian has pointed out, will place Chinese firms at a disadvantage in the US and in Asian markets.
Draghi, a respected MIT economist, favors economic reform and understands the role that a strong euro plays in spurring it.
In the 1950’s, the French economist Jacques Rueff, a close adviser to Charles de Gaulle, argued that “L’Europe se fera par la monnaie, ou ne se fera pas” (Europe will be made through the currency, or it will not be made).
It is the sort of pretense of knowledge that the economist Friedrich von Hayek denounced as a recipe for constraining freedom and ensuring economic mediocrity.
There is thus an unmistakable appeal in escaping an economic arrangement that shackles Scotland to London – an appeal that the great Scottish economist Adam Smith would have recognized.
According to the Scottish economist Ronald MacDonald, an independent Scotland should have its own currency, which would behave like a petro-currency, owing to the economy’s dependence on North Sea gas and oil.
Like the great economist John Maynard Keynes before them, Larry Summers and Paul Krugman have advocated a greater role for public spending to compensate for weak private-sector demand.
The economist and philosopher Amartya Sen famously demonstrated that famines do not occur in democracies with a free press, because their governments cannot ignore the suffering.
Proposals for a “Taylor rule” are more serious, if only because such a rule, first described by Stanford University economist John Taylor, links the policy interest rate to just such a representative basket of goods and services, namely the consumer price index, while adjusting for the rate of unemployment.
When the Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell, the intellectual “father of the euro,” set out to determine an optimal currency area, he put a premium on natural trade and macroeconomic ties.
Jerven mentions three: the World Development Indicators, published by the World Bank (by far the most commonly used dataset); the Penn World Table, released by the University of Pennsylvania; and the Maddison Project at the University of Groningen, which is based on work by the late economist Angus Maddison.
Now, even a key former United States official, the economist Larry Summers, is warning of secular stagnation.
Some, like the economist Robert Gordon, have suggested that we should adjust to a new reality in which long-term productivity growth will be significantly below what it has been over the past century.
On the contrary, the Abe government currently places a high priority on preschool education – an approach supported by research conducted by the Nobel laureate economist James Heckman, who has found that investment in preschool education brings large returns.
“There’s real money here for the individual African,” says Daniel Sumner, an economist and cotton expert at the University of California.
Less noticed, because less obviously political, are today’s intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
Two important links with the earlier network are US economist James Galbraith, the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, and British economist Ha-Joon Chang, author of the best-selling 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism.
A recent proposal by the economist Martin Feldstein points in the right direction: funding expanded public-sector investment with a short- to medium-term fiscal stimulus in conjunction with a multi-year fiscal-consolidation plan.
(I was previously the IMF’s chief economist and oversaw the forecasting process, but I left that position in August 2008.)
The University of Chicago’s Raghuram Rajan, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, tells a plausible story in his recent award-winning book Fault Lines about the connection between income inequality and the financial crisis of 2008.
The Sovereignty that Really MattersMADRID – In his famous “political trilemma of the world economy,” Harvard economist Dani Rodrik boldly claims that global economic integration, the nation-state, and democracy cannot coexist.
American economist Martin Feldstein wrote in 1997 that monetary union would create conflict within Europe.
And here we reach the limits of my mental horizons as a neoliberal, as a technocrat, and as a mainstream neoclassical economist.
According to data available on the economist Emmanuel Saez’s invaluable Web site, from 1993 to 2011, average real income for the bottom 99% of the population (by income) rose by 5.8%, while the top 1% experienced real income growth of 57.5%.
In other words, they should take a kind of euro sabbatical – a proposal that has now also been taken up by American economist Kenneth Rogoff.
An economist would probably argue that money spent on education, housing, and health care brings more “welfare” than money spent in the quest for medals.
But why should I, a Chinese economist, wish to see China’s competitiveness reduced through rising labor costs?
One interesting answer comes from a research group at Harvard University organized by Andrei Shleifer, a distinguished economist who focuses on how governments make economic life harder than it need be.
The French economist Clement Juglar became famous for establishing that business cycles ran for around nine or ten years.
The Bush administration has finally come around to doing what every economist urged it to do: put more equity into the banks.
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