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BERKELEY – Back in the late 1980’s, Japan seemingly could do no wrong in economists’ eyes.
Seven years ago, prior to the global financial crisis, the overwhelming consensus among economists was that, in retrospect, Japan’s expected convergence in productivity levels to America’s Pacific coast was not in the cards.
One thing is clear: economists no longer dare to assume that trend is trend and cycle is cycle, and that their reciprocal interactions are small enough to neglect on the first pass.
That approach has left many economists themselves living in countries that are considerably poorer than they expected.
A federally financed research team of physicians and health-care economists examined hospital records and other clinical information and also spoke with the enrollees and with those not admitted.
In the case of Trump’s trade war, US policy also reflects a misunderstanding – one that economists have repeatedly pointed out – about bilateral trade deficits.
Just prior to the June 2016 Brexit referendum, Gove, who was justice secretary in David Cameron’s government at the time, dismissed the all-but-unanimous view of economists and others that a decision to leave the European Union would deeply damage the British economy.
Economists can’t measure uncertainty directly, they reminded us, while proxies, like the frequency with which the term appears in the financial press, do a poor job of capturing its effects.
Indeed, we economists have had little success at reliably predicting when and why uncertainty spikes.
China, Rodrik believes, is like a Rorschach test for economists.
Gambler’s RuinSan Francisco – From Adam Smith (1776) until 1950 or so, capital was considered by economists to be absolutely essential for economic growth.
We economists were by and large capital boosters, and our magic formula for economic development was saving, investment, thrift, and wealth accumulation.
This failure would not have surprised the monetarist economists who observed the high inflation of the 1970s.
In a 2001 paper, the economists Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Jeemol Unni found that India’s education-wage relationship is convex, meaning that economic returns from secondary education are higher than they are from primary education.
Many economists cite China and South Korea as models of Asian developmental success.
Later, “new classical” economists like Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent demonstrated that once people understand that inflation is being manipulated to generate market optimism, the monetary authorities’ actions lose their impact.
In early 2014, the economists Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan did just that.
Nevertheless, these are relationships that are well known to economists.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century has reignited economists’ interest in the dynamics of wealth and its distribution – a topic that preoccupied classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx.
For example, long before the financial collapse, experimental economists joined psychologists in attempting to measure varying propensities to greediness.
Economists at the World Bank have contributed a few straw men of their own to the education debate.
The obvious solution, which economists have long advocated, is an increase in America’s gasoline taxes.
Yet economists now routinely stoop to ad hominem attacks and inflammatory polemics.
As economists go, they do not come much mightier or more influential than Paul Krugman.
A Nobel laureate who teaches at Princeton University, Krugman is also a columnist for the New York Times, whose commentaries and blog, “The Conscience of a Liberal,” are read with an almost religious fervor by liberal (in the American sense) economists and journalists around the world.
In the corridors around my office, all the economists agree that this factor should have pushed US interest rates up three years ago.
Or it could also mean that economists’ baseline model of the international economy – especially the assumption of “uncovered interest parity,” which holds that foreign interest income expressed in the domestic currency should equal the domestic interest rate – is simply wrong.
Economists who study populism generally draw lessons from Latin America, where past episodes of nationalist over-promising have quickly led to massive fiscal deficits that could not be financed.
His work, the editors lamented, was emblematic of a “dangerous tendency among democratic economists to play the Nazis’ game.”
More fundamentally, orthodox economists claim that it would be a quasi-fiscal operation for which the central bank has no explicit mandate.
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