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Most economists have long frowned on US policies that subsidize homeownership.
Wasn’t it when the economy was hit by a housing and financial crisis, which economists were supposed to predict?
Finally, as the economists Adam Posen and Arvind Subramanian have argued, “China’s single-minded pursuit of mercantilist objectives produces inflation and overheating at home.”
Indeed, by 2017, just six years from now, official US debt will exceed 90% of GDP – the value that Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, and other prominent economists believe is an historical indicator of insolvency.
For this reason, economists focus on the “nominal effective exchange rate,” which compares the rupee’s value to that of other currencies by weighing their share in trade.
Of course, it is precisely because domestic tourism and production are disadvantaged relative to tourism and production abroad that many economists prefer a weak rupee.
These factors – together with the lack of trade data for regions within countries – have led economists only rarely to consider countries’ internal surpluses or deficits.
Economists are all but unanimous in arguing that the macroeconomic effects of Trump’s plan would be disastrous.
But just because economists agree doesn’t mean they’re right.
That indicator – growth rate per working-age person – is not widely used by economists, who instead focus on GDP per capita.
There is a broad consensus among economists that long-term growth can be secure only if it is both sustainable and inclusive.
Deepening social polarization, its use in financial negotiations, and the intrusion of a new security element provide further evidence of what most economists and commentators on Europe have long argued: a monetary union is impossible to sustain in the absence of a political union.
Economists are likely to spend months puzzling over why the effect of low oil prices has proved slow to emerge in the consumption statistics.
Economists and others often tend to look at countries as a whole and emphasize national attitudes and national policies as the main factors in encouraging or discouraging entrepreneurship.
The Dead Cat BounceNEW YORK – Mild signs that the rate of economic contraction is slowing in the United States, China, and other parts of the world have led many economists to forecast that positive growth will return to the US in the second half of the year, and that a similar recovery will occur in other advanced economies.
The emerging consensus among economists is that growth next year will be close to the trend rate of 2.5%.
Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall sharply without an ensuing recession.
My think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has asked 57 teams of economists to investigate 19 major areas and about 50 targets – asking how much each will cost and how much good it will do – by the end of this year, well before the UN decides on its SDGs in late 2015.
So we asked our economists to give a quick assessment on about 100 of the proposed targets.
But the UN draft says that we should “end malnutrition,” and the economists warn that while such an absolute goal sounds alluring, it is likely both implausibly optimistic and inefficient.
Instead, the economists suggest focusing on reducing barriers to employment, particularly for women.
The ultimate decision about which targets to set for the coming 15 years is a complex and deeply political discussion, and advice from economists will not magically resolve all complications.
And he insists, over the protests of countless economists, that trade deficits are a sign of US economic weakness.
Asian economists who promote regional integration in Asia have observed the debate with amazement, in that the fault line is not based on economic philosophy like “Keynesians vs. Neoclassicals” or “Liberals vs. Conservatives,” but on a geographical, transatlantic divide.
American economists, led by Martin Feldstein, have argued that the eurozone’s economies are too diverse, with too many institutional differences and labor-market rigidities, to form an optimal currency area.
So, as “euroland” risks breaking up over the Greek crisis, musically-versed economists recall the cryptic last line of that 1970’s pop song “Hotel California” by the Eagles: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
Such messy policy details have never much bothered free-market economists.
Economists, political theorists, moral and political philosophers, sociologists, and even the general public rapidly took notice of what seemed like – and indeed was – a devastating result.
There is no reason economists should agree about what is politically possible.
By 2060, 3.75 billion working days per year could be lost due to the adverse health effects of dirty air – what economists call the “disutility of illness.”
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