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A team of finance economists – Martijn Cremers, Ankur Pareek, and Zacharias Sautner – recently assembled data examining a related issue.

The market failure in the case of air pollution is what economists call an “externality”: those who pollute do not bear the entire cost.

The market failure in the case of health care is what economists call “adverse selection”: insurers may not provide insurance, especially to patients with pre-existing conditions, if they fear that healthy customers have already taken themselves out of the risk pool.

In the run-up to the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, many emerging economies kept their currencies rigidly pegged to the dollar, and governments tended to borrow heavily in dollars, despite generating most of their revenues in the domestic currency (what economists labeled “original sin”).

Moreover, many economists believe that the euro's post-launch dive against the dollar was simply not justified by macroeconomic fundamentals in America and Europe, which its revival in the spring and summer of 2002 seem to confirm.

Financial markets are supposed to be forward-looking, and many economists believe that they allocate resources in a way that reflects all available information.

Poverty versus GrowthThe debate among governments, economists, and NGOs about how much the world’s poor benefit from economic growth seems unending.

Fortunately, there finally seems to be a growing number of influential scientists, economists, and politicians who represent a more sensible approach to the issue.

Leading economists, such as Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk-sharing over the conventional bias in favor of debt instruments.

Finally, according to a fourth group of economists, centered around Ricardo Caballero of MIT, the problem is a global shortage of safe assets.

So we have four theories, all advocated by smart, thoughtful, and hard-working economists.

That justification will not convince economists, who prefer a dryer sort of reasoning.

But it is not out of place to remind ourselves that economists and bureaucrats need not always have things their own way.

At a recent conference in Berlin, economists debated what to do if the euro proves unsustainable.

Virtually the only proposition on which international economists agree is that the sum of all trade balances must equal zero.

He faces off against Alexander Van der Bellen, a member of the Greens, on May 22.Claims like Hofer’s may be the subject of fierce disagreement among labor economists, but they have struck a chord with the European electorate.

Yes, orthodox economists of (mostly) Teutonic origin peddle a lethal fiscal-policy prescription.

Economists who insist that China’s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

In a series of studies, IMF economists have stopped treating the issue as one of good versus evil, and have started treating it as a run-of-the-mill economic choice: capital controls have costs and benefits that can be measured and compared.

The IMF economists ask how 50 countries fared during the recent world financial meltdown, with performance measured by economic growth in 2008-09 relative to 2003–2007.

All aspiring economists are taught the discipline’s cardinal rule: governments (and people, for that matter) should undertake an action to the point where, at the margin, its benefits equal its costs.

According to an analysis by Nobel laureates and other prestigious economists for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, these investments include expanded immunization for children, efforts to lower the price of schooling, and initiatives to end the “silent hunger” of micronutrient deficiency.

It can drive the real over-investment cycles feared by Austrian-school economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and can drive harmful booms and busts in prices of existing assets, as described by Hyman Minsky.

One radical regime change, proposed in the 1930’s by economists like Irving Fisher and Henry Simons, and endorsed by Milton Friedman in 1948, would be to abolish fractional reserve banking (and thus banks’ ability to create new credit, money, and purchasing power autonomously).

Indeed, those links were central to the arguments advanced by economists like Simons, Fisher, and Friedman, who, surveying the wreckage produced by excessive credit creation in the 1920’s, proposed both OMF of fiscal deficits and a system of 100% reserve banking.

Indeed, “real” business-cycle economists typically argue that, but for Roosevelt’s misguided New Deal policies, recovery from the Great Depression of 1929-1933 would have been much faster than it was.

Coase’s Chinese LegacyHONG KONG – The recent death of Ronald H. Coase, the founding father of new institutional economics, is a great loss to Chinese economists who are seeking an effective framework for understanding China’s ongoing economic transformation.

With two seminal papers, Coase changed the way economists view institutions’ impact on an economy.

Debt Without DrowningLONDON – Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained without a fiscal union.

Trade economists who complain about minor instances of protectionism sound like a child whining about a damaged toy in the wake of an earthquake that killed thousands.

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