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Although economists have endless debates about whether culture or institutions lie at the root of economic performance, there is every reason to be concerned that the recent wave of populism is a threat to both.

The Real Reason for Trump’s Steel and Aluminum TariffsCAMBRIDGE – Like almost all economists and most policy analysts, I prefer low trade tariffs or no tariffs at all.

The World Bank, the Nature Conservancy, and partner researchers (including ecologists, economists, and engineers) have recently published a report offering guidelines for such cooperation.

Suddenly, economists (especially in the United States) began to measure substantial productivity gains.

But now, after so much European and global generosity, Stiglitz and other economists argue that some of Greece's debt must be forgiven to make room for more spending.

As research by the economists Richard Caballero, Takeo Hoshi, and Anil Kashyap has shown, Japan’s corporate “zombies” – rendered essentially lifeless by their balance-sheet problems – ended up damaging the healthier parts of the economy.

While American economists, politicians, and business leaders have for years sought to sell their model of management abroad, many companies elsewhere have not been buying it.

It is hard to get any two economists - let alone two Nobel Prize winners - to agree on anything.

Mankiw’s standard description of outsourcing is very much like mine – indeed, like that of all neoclassical and neoliberal economists – and goes something like this:As with any change in technology that increases the volume of international trade in goods and services, the outsourcing of service-sector jobs creates winners and losers – but almost surely more and bigger winners than losers.

A key question is whether incoming Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and his new Italian counterpart, Mario Monti, both highly regarded economists, have the leadership skills to navigate these treacherous waters.

Western economists typically favor gradual tax increases;Jeffrey Frankel, for example, recommends a pre-announced plan to increase the tax rate by, say, one percentage point annually for five years.

When the Cabinet Office called upon 60 business leaders, academics, and economists (including me) to perform such an evaluation, more than 70% favored the hike.

In fact, the ministry has used its “informational campaign” to shape public discussion, convincing scholars, business economists, and the general public to be more concerned about keeping the budget deficit under control than about the effects of a negative demand shock.

This is a typical example of what economists like Joseph Stiglitz call “cognitive capture.”

When economists don’t know how to explain something, they often invoke the irrationality of markets.

Yet consensus does not even exist among professional economists about this.

Unlike in the past, many economists now say that the effects are positive.

While the specifics vary across countries, the innovation-focused Neo-Schumpeterian growth theory, proposed by the economists Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, offers some important insights.

As always with economists, there are two schools of thought.

Countries like Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa have managed to issue international debt in their own currencies, partly overcoming the burden of what some economists had called “original sin” – that is, an environment in which most countries must issue debt denominated in, say, dollars.

This project has received wide acclaim from officials, economists, and entrepreneurs, reflecting a widespread belief that boosting growth and competitiveness starts at the grass roots level.

Many economists, including the authors, have suggested a variety of alternatives to patent-supported R&D and testing that avoid these problems.

The Greeks, for their part, have been putting their national identity ahead of their pocketbooks, in ways that economists do not understand and continually fail to predict.

And, of course, Trump will still claim that the US economy can grow at a rate of 4%, even though all mainstream economists, including Republicans, agree that the potential growth rate will remain around 2%, regardless of his policies.

Economists who focus on such issues tend to fall into three groups.

Non-libertarians recognize the fatal flaw in this argument: financial blow-ups entail what economists call a “systemic risk” – everyone pays a price.

For this reason, economists in both the second and third groups – call them finance enthusiasts and finance skeptics – are more interventionist.

Since the World Cup ended in July, economic activity has plummeted, inflationary pressures have intensified, and consumer and business confidence have collapsed, leading many economists to slash their growth forecasts for this year.

The next year, the Petroleum Revenue Management Act divided the wealth among consumption, investment, and offshore savings, as recommended by economists around the world (including us).

Economists disagree about the causes of this divergence.

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