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Economists disagree about when, under what circumstances, and in what order governments should move beyond these first two items on the checklist.
The reason behind that uninspiring consensus is simple: people - economists and investors alike - have become so pessimistic about Russia that they no longer can see positive facts.
Major industries with 16-22% growth were chemicals, light manufacturing, pulp and paper, and machine building; that is, intermediary goods and simple manufacturing, exactly the kind of industries economists like to see expanding at this stage of a recovery.
Syriza is in many ways a radical party, and its views on economic policy are often described as hard left; but the party's take on debt and austerity is supported by many perfectly mainstream economists in Europe and America.
The official consumer price index rose by 6.5% in August, but some Western economists calculate that the inflation rate is closer to 10%.
But, of course, the sub-text is that if this fixation on property has also led to greater pragmatism in affairs of the heart, it has also led to a worrisome property bubble that many economists now fear could soon burst.
Their emerging narrative goes like this:When some economists spoke of panic and confidence crises, they meant their own.
Economists disagree over how much this increases trade.
A carbon tax, long advocated by a broad spectrum of economists, is a generalized version of a gas tax that hits all forms of carbon emissions, including from coal and natural gas.
"[Doesn’t] what has happened in the past few years,” Wolf asked, “simply suggest that [academic] economists did not understand what was going on?”
Summers then enlarged his answer to include living economists: “Eichengreen, Akerlof, Shiller, many, many others.”
As a result, “to the great detriment of contemporary macroeconomics,” his fellow economists did not understand asset prices, manias, panics, and liquidity.
As university chancellors and students demand relevance and utility, perhaps these colleagues will take over teaching how the economy works and leave academic economists in a rump discipline that merely teaches the theory of logical choice.
When Nobel Laureate economists weighed up how to achieve the most good for the world in a recent project called the Copenhagen Consensus, they found that focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and trade barriers should all be tackled long before we commit to any dramatic action on climate change.
Furthermore, the organization, conceived first and foremost as a bank, is still the turf of economists and finance specialists, even though lending operations are progressively giving up center stage.
One popular theory is that, given the supply-side orientation of German economists, there is little sympathy for Keynesian, demand-oriented prescriptions.
German economists, in contrast to their American colleagues, never abandoned Keynesian policies as a means to combat demand deficits.
Moreover, German politicians rarely heed the advice of German economists.
Most economists regard price discrimination as evil--a way for monopolists to increase profits.
The world nowadays looks very much like the theoretical world that economists have traditionally used to examine the costs and benefits of monetary unions.
Why provide economists with more facts to prove the point?
Many prominent economists, including the members of a United Nations panel headed by the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, are recommending a “Global Reserve System” to replace the dollar’s hegemony.
GDP Should Be Corrected, Not ReplacedZURICH – Respected economists have long pointed out that gross domestic product is an inadequate measure of economic development and social well-being, and thus should not be policymakers’ sole fixation.
In 1972, Yale University economists William Nordhaus and James Tobin proposed a new framework, the “measure of economic welfare” (MEW), to account for sundry unpaid activities.
Economists may have learned from history, but politicians seem doomed to repeat it.
The vast majority of economists (outside of Germany) agree that Greece’s debt should be written down and its fiscal policy relaxed.
There is also little doubt that this is the view of senior economists within the IMF; for example, the recently departed head of the Fund’s European Department, Reza Moghadan, has called for Greek debt to be halved.
Intervening on the currency markets without altering interest rates - a measure economists call a "sterilized intervention" - would affect the exchange rate for a few minutes, at the most for a few days.
Contrary to the advice of many Chinese economists, the country’s policymakers have opted not to follow the conventional Western approach of using flexible exchange rates as the main shock absorber for volatile capital flows and thereby freeing monetary policy to provide liquidity for domestic structural adjustments.
This satisfied both Western economists and global financial markets, which breathed a collective sigh of relief when Chinese leaders reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining a stable renminbi.
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