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Might the world’s leading economists be so keen to protect their own ideas that they ignore (or, worse, stifle) innovation from unexpected quarters?
The economists’ commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation: debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.
Latin American economists are particularly pessimistic.
Recovery is Not ResolutionCAMBRIDGE – Earlier this year, the consensus view among economists was that the United States would outstrip its advanced-economy rivals.
As the US pushes China to revalue the renminbi, American economists try to support the case for a stronger renminbi by looking at examples of surplus countries that adjusted by carrying out more expansionary policies.
But economists (including me) who have worked on this kind of problem for five decades have found that price bubbles surrounding intrinsically worthless assets must eventually burst.
Currency movements are often described as the most unpredictable of all financial variables; but recent events in foreign-exchange markets seem, for once, to have a fairly obvious explanation – one that almost all economists and policymakers accept and endorse.
Asia's Growth Model Still Holds TrueWith the proverbial benefit (and embarrassment!) of hindsight, it is clear that the patterns of growth that occurred over the last half-century were little understood and rarely (if ever) forecast by economists.
Simultaneous to this, a strong consensus developed among economists and policymakers that favored the import substitution policies then being pursued by countries including India, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt and Turkey.
The key point here is not only that economists got so much wrong, but that almost no one got things right.
Fiscal Apocalypse NowAs support for President George W. Bush in the United States has crumbled over the past year, perhaps the most surprising element is the revolt of economists and observers of economic policy.
So it invited 13 economists from around the world (including the authors – four former chief economists of the World Bank) to do just that.
New research by three Italian economists, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian does this, and, ultimately, provides a powerful economic case for a much greater focus on adaptation.
Third, foreign panic combined with the IMF credit squeeze created what economists call a debt-deflation cycle.
Many economists were skeptical about Hirschman’s approach because they could not quite fit it into the economics they had been trained to practice.
Getting Past Slow GrowthWASHINGTON, DC – Most economists nowadays are pessimistic about the world economy’s growth prospects.
The World Bank has, yet again, downgraded its medium-term projections, and economists the world over are warning that we are facing a “new normal” of slower growth.
The logic behind Macron’s labor-market reforms has driven the structural-reform agenda of policy economists and international institutions ranging from the International Monetary Fund to the OECD during the last three decades.
Firing costs are hiring costs, as economists like to say.
This ambiguity explains why it has proved difficult to establish a clear empirical relationship between employment protection and labor-market performance, despite the enthusiasm of many economists and policymakers for flexibility-enhancing reforms.
In such a technocratic discussion, it is easy to forget that what economists call “labor-market rigidities” are in fact a crucial component of the social bargain in advanced capitalist economies.
Economists have proposed three explanations for why macroeconomic catastrophes have not caused more human suffering and deranged long-run economic growth over the past generation.
First, some economists argue that we have simply been lucky, because there has been no structural change that has made the world economy more resilient.
Messed-Up MacroITHACA – Until a few years ago, economists of all persuasions confidently proclaimed that the Great Depression would never recur.
Some economists claim that governments faced a balance of risk in 2010: Cutting the deficit might have slowed growth; but not committing to cut it might have made things even worse.
In the economists’ lingo, policy results are “model-dependent.”
Economists debate whether market economies are naturally stable.
Some of the world’s top economists – including three Nobel Laureates – answered this question at the Copenhagen Consensus last May.
Little has changed since Italian economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi noted, nearly a decade ago, that, “Without serious, deep, and comprehensive reforms, Europe will inexorably decline, both economically and politically.”
Economists hesitate to explain to people that they should borrow less.
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