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Of course, the problem with economics is that there are often as many interpretations of any crisis as there are economists.
BRUSSELS – When the architects of the euro started drawing up plans for its creation in the late 1980’s, economists warned them that a viable monetary union required more than an independent central bank and a framework for budgetary discipline.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Necessary AgendaBRIGHTON – Seven economists (including Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and me) have agreed to become economic advisers to Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the British Labour Party.
The economists Tyler Cowen and Robert Gordon, on the other hand, argue that the problem is on the supply side.
Chile versus ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES/SANTIAGO – Economists often compare similar economies to isolate the impact of a particular difference.
Some leading economists in Argentina justify this reversal by arguing that the world now has an “Obama IMF,” one presumably friendlier and more attuned to local problems than the “Bush Fund.”
But will the Fund now abandon its long-held emphasis on government cutbacks, monetary contraction, and overall austerity, policies that – in the opinion of many development economists – do considerably more harm than good?
But in the current environment of persistently weak aggregate demand, below-target inflation, and slow or no output growth, economists worldwide have been desperately seeking deus ex machina – a search that, for some, has led to the heliport.
Economists argue that should the current trickle of 350,000 visitors each year grow to a quite reasonable million, every Bolivian would be employed.
The March unemployment rate of 8.2% was nearly three percentage points above what most economists would consider a desirable and sustainable long-run level rate.
This kind of thinking is common among economists, particularly the generation swept up by the “rational expectations” revolution in macroeconomics.
Older economists thought differently, assuming that most economic outcomes in the real world are the result of behavior that is at least partly irrational, meaning that expectations should be viewed more as reasonable possibilities than near-certainties.
In Bangladesh, the world’s eighth-most populous country, the Copenhagen Consensus worked with the world’s biggest NGO, the renowned BRAC, and dozens of Bangladeshi and international expert economists to analyze the most effective solutions to the country’s many challenges.
Our economists estimate the costs of each policy, along with their social, environmental, and economic benefits, in order to show which investments deliver the highest return.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, economists like Milton Friedman assumed that a global regime of floating exchange rates would be one in which currency values moved slowly and gradually alongside differences in the economy’s inflation and productivity-growth rates.
But the realignment of the rich, developed countries around the monetarist policies promoted by economists like Milton Friedman, which began around 1970, broke with all that.
Creativity, Corporatism, and CrowdsNEW HAVEN – Economic growth, as we learned long ago from the works of economists like MIT’s Robert M. Solow, is largely driven by learning and innovation, not just saving and the accumulation of capital.
Economists today know a great deal more – albeit not as much as we would like – about how monetary, banking, and fiscal policies affect the flow of nominal spending, and their findings are the topic of a great deal of open and deep political and public intellectual discussion.
The working classes can vote, economists understand and publicly discuss nominal income determination, and no influential group stands to benefit from a deeper and more prolonged depression.
While breeders are eager to defend their trade, economists have debunked the myth that a legal domestic market in rhino horns will conserve wild populations.
Economists call such situations "coordination failures," if depositors could talk to each other and coordinate their actions, they would be able to avoid a self-defeating run on the bank.
Deposit insurance creates what economists call "moral hazard," people who are insured against an unpleasant event are not as careful as they would otherwise be in trying to avoid that event.
Even before it was born, some economists (such as myself) asked whether a single currency would be desirable for such a heterogeneous group of countries.
In the United States, academic economists repeatedly warned that Trump’s economic plans were little short of lunacy, and in the aftermath of his shocking election victory, some prophesied immediate economic catastrophe.
While the rate of NPLs is, according to official data, lower than 2%, many economists estimate that it is actually more like 3-5%.
Mainstream economists and policymakers had no difficulty in demonstrating that the establishment and spread of regulated, open, world trading system created extraordinary new wealth.
This brought significant stability to the global monetary order, following the competitive devaluations of the 1930s that some economists considered damaging.
For the last few years, some bearish economists have warned about America’s real estate boom, its consumption binge, global imbalances, and even unreasonably low risk premiums; but somehow America, and the world, has muddled through.
In addition, as the economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT have argued in their book The Second Machine Age, rapid advances in information technology may enable increasingly extensive automation.
The Democrats’ Line in the SandBERKELEY – Ever since the 1928 work of Frank Ramsey, economists have accepted the utilitarian argument that a good economy is one in which returns on investment are not too great a multiple – less than three – of the rate of per capita economic growth.
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