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Think of it as a tiny, tiny number of ancient economists and misrepresentative ideologues have captured the process.
Scientists have sometimes criticized economists who believe ideas and concepts are more important than empirical data, because a foundational guideline in science is: Let the data speak.
Now, many brilliant economists have spent their entire lives working on this question, and as a field we've made a tremendous amount of headway and we understand a lot about this.
What I'm going to show you, though, is something that I've been engaging in for a year, which is trying to gather all of the largest datasets that we have access to as economists, and I'm going to try and strip away all of those possible differences, hoping to get this relationship to break.
Yes, because I just told you, we actually collect a lot of health data as economists.
And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable income, which was shocking to me, given I had no regular customers, but pretty much 60 bucks on a Tuesday, 90 bucks on a Friday.
I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous tasks will be taken over by Watson and his digital brethren.
But that's not how economists measure GDP.
If we wanted to accelerate that process, we could do things like have our best economists and policymakers play "Jeopardy!"
This was called the Great Moderation, the misguided belief by most economists, policymakers and central banks that we have transformed into a new world of never-ending growth and prosperity.
The result is something that economists Alan Krueger and Miles Corak call the Great Gatsby Curve.
Now, technologists, business leaders and economists all basically agree on what national policies and international treaties would spur the development of alternative energy: mostly, a significant increase in energy research and development, and some kind of price on carbon.
Some economists have proposed a market solution: Offer cash incentives to kids for getting good grades or high test scores or for reading books.
Now, what this, even this brief debate, brings out is something that many economists overlook.
Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not touch or taint the goods they exchange.
But I can't give design arguments for that that will have as much impact as the arguments that I've learned from the economists, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists.
Until some economists said, you know, is that the right way to measure CO2?
So a fundamental shift, and now you have environmentalists and economists like Ed Glaeser saying we are a destructive species.
Economists aren't great at forecasting.
I would like to see if you can all now become economists, because if growth for the last 10 years has been five and a half percent, what do you think the IMF is forecasting for the next five years of growth in Africa?
You're all economists, and I think, like most economists, wrong.
And the problem is that economists often think, well, there is a reward back to the state.
This is what economists call a moral hazard.
Like you've heard the other economists say, we are at the point where China was when its boom years began, and that's where we're going.
Psychologists, medical scientists, economists were all interested in finding out the rules that govern the way all of us behave.
People actually tried to predict the future, even the economists.
Many economists would have you believe that their field is an objective science.
Economists call it an unconditional cash transfer, and it's exactly that: It's cash given with no strings attached.
And we badly need them to turn their energies and their power to big, what economists might call public goods problems, that are often beyond markets where investors can easily be found.
This is what economists might call a problem of the commons, and the problem of the commons is exactly what we face in the case of antibiotics as well: that we don't consider — and we, including individuals, patients, hospitals, entire health systems — do not consider the costs that they impose on others by the way antibiotics are actually used.
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