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Simon Kuznets, one of the twentieth century’s great economists, was a pioneer of human-capital theory.
By and large, economists and other social scientists have neglected the history of Jews and capitalism, for reasons that are understandable, though unconvincing.
For most economists, the extent to which modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions is a source of puzzlement at best, if not merely a factor to be dismissed.
Such cultural considerations simply do not fit into the categories in which equation-fixated economists are predisposed to think.
When economists examine “human capital,” they prefer measurable criteria such as years of schooling.
These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.
The resulting complacency, among policymakers and economists alike, contributed to the world economy becoming more vulnerable to a series of small shocks that, in 2008, culminated in a crisis that pushed the world to the brink of a devastating multi-year economic depression.
In the meantime, both economists and policymakers have an important role to play in improving the existing situation.
Some academic economists, as well as the rare policymaker (such as the late Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa), called for centralized supervision of financial institutions long before the euro crisis erupted.
Forecasts for the world economy are turning pessimistic, and economists in export-dependent Argentina are finding much to worry about.
Those are careful estimates by serious economists.
Again and again, local and international economists have issued dire warnings about what would happen if it persisted in its heterodoxy.
"Protect property rights and enforce contracts," say Western economists.
The country’s growth slowdown and mounting financial risks have spurred a growing wave of pessimism, with economists worldwide warning of an impending crash.
The Inflation PuzzleCAMBRIDGE – The low rate of inflation in the United States is a puzzle, especially to economists who focus on the relationship between inflation and changes in the monetary base.
That question has been haunting economists ever since, as the recognition has slowly taken hold that, in the supposed “golden age” preceding the crisis, they were blind not only to the potential consequences of failure – but also to the true cost of “success.”
Indeed, a group of economists (including me) concluded in a report commissioned by the Legatum Institute that, despite its apparent subjectivity, “wellbeing” – or life satisfaction – can be measured robustly, compared internationally, and used to set policies and judge their success.
Some economists dismiss such complaints as merely fuel for protectionism.
But Jean Pisani-Ferry, one of the best policy economists in France, recently resigned as director of the government think tank France Stratégie to become Macron’s program director.
For example, Japanese economists argue that the Plaza Agreement, which called for “orderly appreciation” of non-dollar currencies against the dollar, was a natural outgrowth of high national income.
Instead of viewing all of this as motivation to back away from unconventional monetary policy, however, some economists are recommending that the ECB and the BOJ pursue an even more extraordinary policy: so-called “helicopter drops.”
Obama has a first-rate group of economists on his side, which ensures that he will not do anything silly.
According to a new study by the economists Robert Shapiro and Aparna Mathur, if India achieved Chinese levels of IP protection, its annual FDI inflows would increase by 33% annually.
This question was addressed in a groundbreaking project involving a long list of the world’s top economists at the Copenhagen Consensus last year.
A “dream team” of eight economists, including three Nobel Laureates, confronted the basic question: if the world had, say, an extra $50 billion to do good, where could that money best be spent?
Summers placed particular emphasis on the need for more infrastructure investment, a sentiment that most economists wholeheartedly share, especially if one is referring to genuinely productive investment.
But things keep getting worse: the deficit for 2009 alone is expected to be more than a half-trillion dollars, excluding the costs of financial bail-outs and the second stimulus package that almost all economists now say is urgently needed.
The policies of central planning, dirigisme , and import substitution, which many newly independent countries adopted in the 1950's and 1960's, could be labeled as the ideas of communists, Fabian socialists, and nationalists, not trained economists.
The policies of deregulation, privatization, and trade liberalization (the so-called Washington Consensus) that countries adopted in the 1980's, supposedly marked the victory of professional economists over populist politicians.
The puzzle is not "why did economics fail us?" but "why were economists so overconfident?"
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