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Needless to say, every case will be unique, and economists will have to decide for themselves.
Opinion on this matter is divided between conservative economists and official bodies like the IMF and OECD.
As the economists Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand argued more than a decade ago, “It would be a gross violation of the universalist principle if we were to be obsessed about intergenerational equity without at the same time seizing the problem of intragenerational equity.”
What Greece Needs to ProsperNEW YORK – Some economists overlook the modern idea that a country’s prosperity depends on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Looking at Greece, these economists argue that a shift in fiscal policy to “austerity” – a smaller public sector – has brought an acute deficiency of demand and thus a depression.
As the late Rudi Dornbusch (who preceded me as the author of this series of commentaries) used to say, unsustainable capital inflows always last much longer than economists, who tend to focus firmly on the fundamentals, believe possible.
Some economists point out that high tax rates in Europe make work less rewarding – and thus leisure more attractive.
Other economists see Europe’s powerful labor unions as an important determinant in European attitudes towards work.
The economists Ronald Schettkat and Richard Freeman have calculated that American women spend ten hours per week less on cooking, cleaning, and childcare than European women do.
Helicopter drops are currently proposed by both leftist and centrist economists.
The fact that economists whose views typically fall nowhere near those of the far left are even thinking about such interventionism shows just how extreme circumstances have become.
Some of the frameworks economists use to analyze the world favor free markets, while others don’t.
And non-economic motives and socially cooperative behavior are increasingly part of what economists study.
Nevertheless, economists get stuck with the charge of being narrowly ideological, because they are their own worst enemy when it comes to applying their theories to the real world.
But, in the years leading up to the crisis, many economists downplayed these models’ lessons in favor of models of efficient and self-correcting markets, which, in policy terms, resulted in inadequate governmental oversight over financial markets.
Downplaying the diversity of intellectual frameworks within their own discipline does not make economists better analysts of the real world.
A study published in 2005 by economists Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, and Christian Lundblad found that when countries liberalize their stock markets, allowing them to operate freely without government intervention, economic growth rises by an average of one percentage point annually.
Economists welcomed this ostensibly reasonable approach, which would slow the expansion of credit that had enabled a massive debt build-up in 2008-2010.
Two Myths of the 2008 MeltdownCAMBRIDGE – Over the last decade, research by many economists, including us, arrived at a broadly shared narrative of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Likewise, economists have long noted that for countries gorging on capital inflows, there is a big difference between debt instruments and equity-like investments, including both stocks and foreign direct investment.
This phenomenon comes as no surprise to economists.
But those who claim that inequality is something to be desired are akin to those who argue that unemployment is always voluntary, as some economists still insist.
But despite protests by the yesterday’s proponents of deregulation, who would like the government to remain passive, most economists believe that government spending has made a difference, helping to avert another Great Depression.
Most economists also agree that it is a mistake to look at only one side of a balance sheet (whether for the public or private sector).
Finally, most economists agree that, apart from these considerations, the appropriate size of a deficit depends in part on the state of the economy.
It is here that economists disagree.
Over the longer term, most economists agree that governments, especially in advanced industrial countries with aging populations, should be concerned about the sustainability of their policies.
Solving micronutrient deficiencies was one of 19 specific targets identified by a panel of Nobel laureate economists who studied the SDG targets for the Copenhagen Consensus, the think tank I direct, and identified the most cost-effective ways to help people, protect the planet, and boost prosperity.
The Abdication of the LeftRONDA, SPAIN – As the world reels from the Brexit shock, it is dawning on economists and policymakers that they severely underestimated the political fragility of the current form of globalization.
Some economists, including me, did warn about the consequences of pushing economic globalization beyond the boundaries of institutions that regulate, stabilize, and legitimize markets.
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