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Starting in the 1980s, however, neoliberal economists began to dominate the discussion.

Indeed, some economists now argue for a two-pronged attack on inequality: redistributive measures alongside market interventions to bolster wages and employment.

While Qureshi calls for economic growth to be “inclusive,” most of the policies he recommends fit more with the failed Washington Consensus than with the new directions proposed by resurgent progressive economists.

Even stranger, productivity growth does not seem to be soaring, as one would expect; in fact, it seems to be decelerating, according to research by John Fernald and Bing Wang, economists in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

The goods we made were what economists call “rival" and “excludible" commodities.

Economists vs. Scientists on Long-Term GrowthCAMBRIDGE – Most economic forecasters have largely shrugged off recent advances in artificial intelligence (for example, the quantum leap demonstrated by DeepMind’s self-learning chess program last December), seeing little impact on longer-term trend growth.

In any case, the focus of economists’ pessimism is long-term growth.

It is hard to know who is right: neither economists nor scientists have a great track record when it comes to making long-term predictions.

Iran is also expected to eventually create new trade routes spanning the Mediterranean through the Indian Ocean all the way to the Sea of Japan and the Pacific, according to diplomats and economists in Tehran.

On the contrary, beyond weakening relations with America’s closest allies, Trump’s tactics have increased tensions with Russia, thereby increasing what economists call the “shadow price” of national security.

Unlike economists, biologists, for example, know that every cell functions according to instructions for protein synthesis encoded in its DNA.

Economists have none of that.

(When American economists advise China to boost consumption and cut saving, they are merely peddling the bad habits of American culture, which saves and invests far too little for America’s future.)

The economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have argued that the major financial crises of the last century typically lasted a half-decade or longer.

At the same time, however, it must focus on workers and elevating the experience of their work, which economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and Alfred Marshall placed at the center of their concerns.

Here I differ with many economists – including my dear friends Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Vladimir Kvint – whose preferred standard is the quality of life.

Another dear friend, Amartya Sen, points out that economists’ focus on consumption leaves out people’s need to “do things.”

They also argue that migrants dilute the recipient country’s culture and traditions – a claim with an emotional pull that economists often underestimate.

IndianomicsNEW DELHI – Nowadays, economists are assailed by irresolute thoughts: what, for example, is the right term to apply to current global economic conditions?

He became one of the outstanding policy economists of our time, displaying the same rare talent demonstrated in his theoretical work: the ability to extract the essence of a complicated problem and explain it in terms that made it appear simple.

Some on the left, motivated in part by revulsion against financial types who are thought to reap unjustified incomes, have joined forces with conventional economists, whose almost religious belief in their models has blinded them to the harm their dubious economic theory can do to the real economy and the interests of ordinary people.

The key question economists should now be asking is why financial markets are “seizing up” when banks and other financial institutions are flush with liquidity.

Various estimates by private-sector economists and World Bank officials suggest that the government’s accumulated “net implicit pension debt” could balloon to 75-110% of GDP.

Originally a concept created by economists for economists, its use for determining when, and by how much, a public deficit must be corrected is becoming a matter for wider discussion.

This question has long divided economists along a right-left axis, at least since University of Chicago economists George Stigler and Milton Friedman argued that many, if not most, regulations were motivated by rent-seeking among bureaucrats and business incumbents.

Economists may warn that the combination of Trump’s protectionism, big tax cuts, and uncontrolled government borrowing, coming at a time when the US economy is already near full employment, will ultimately fuel inflationary pressure.

In a recent poll of British economists by the Centre for Macroeconomics, two-thirds agreed that austerity had harmed the UK economy.

Secular Stagnation RevisitedWARWICK – The public spat between Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is remarkable for the personal animosity that it reveals between two economists who essentially agree about the economics.

The new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), involving more than 120 scientists, economists, and technology specialists, provides that long-overdue assessment.

The IPCC report also underscores what some development experts and economists have been saying for years: energy choices should take into account wider benefits.

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