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Instead of bowing to polarization and paralysis, policymakers should be promoting growth- and productivity-enhancing infrastructure investments, funded at exceptionally low interest rates, scaling up labor-market reforms, and working to address the growing income and wealth inequality that is increasingly limiting access to economic opportunity.
Those who predict generally low interest rates over the next generation point to rapid growth of productivity and potential output in the world economy.
They also cite investment opportunities in emerging markets, and make the obvious point that if China and India stay on track, their economies' relative weight in the world will double in the next decade or so, as rapid real growth is accompanied by appreciation in their real exchange rates.
Now the Fed must be concerned about slowing American growth.
Three years of 4% growth in an economy at full employment is asking for inflationary trouble.
On the supply side, whatever the truth of higher productivity growth and higher trend output growth, the story is not that good.
But on the demand side, gains in the stock market of the past 2 years keep pushing up spending and hence growth.
High rates and a deep fall of stocks - 20 or 30% - will surely put the US economy close to zero growth or worse.
Slowdown in America limits the chances for an upturn everywhere and trims the hopes for extra growth from Asia to Europe.
We had a taste of all this a few weeks back when the Fed first signaled its concern with growth and inflation prospects.
Despite the economic growth resulting from reforms undertaken by Hosni Mubarak’s regime in recent years, unemployment and poverty remained at high levels.
Despite their ideological differences, governments throughout the region have delivered rapid economic growth and improved their populations’ livelihoods.
Ironically, the Chinese government has been strengthened without oppressing the growth and dynamism of the Chinese economy.
But the question remains: will output growth continue following the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government at the end of June?
At the same time, maintaining the flow of funds into the Iraqi oil sector is essential, not only for its growth, but for its very survival.
Gambler’s RuinSan Francisco – From Adam Smith (1776) until 1950 or so, capital was considered by economists to be absolutely essential for economic growth.
For Smith and his successors over the first 175 years, any episode of sustained economic growth overwhelmingly required investment capital.
They calculated that 75% to 80% of economic growth did not come from increasing the capital-output ratio – at least not if the private marginal product of capital was taken as an indicator of the social marginal product.
Instead, the keys to growth and development appeared to lie beyond an increase in capital intensity as measured by capital-output ratios: skills, education, technology broadly understood, and improvements in organizational management.
And even when other factors constrain growth more, they cannot be changed without changing the shape and form of the economy’s capital stock.
Indeed, high investment serves as a sign that other binding constraints to growth are absent, implying prosperity and that things are going right.
The problem is that for poor economies, raising the capital needed to relax binding growth constraints is difficult.
That’s why the world took the neo-liberal bet in the 1990’s: international capital mobility would come to the rescue by relaxing capital constraints where they were binding, and by reducing the scope for corruption and rent-seeking, which was often a more significant binding growth constraint.
For most of the past generation, and looking into the future, the message of the market is that the benefits of international capital mobility do not include a relaxation of the capital constraint, and thus an acceleration of growth in the global periphery.
In 1970, Japan celebrated its own tremendous postwar economic growth with the Osaka Expo, as well as by launching the Bullet Train.
By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India’s capacity for economic growth.
Chinese military expansion has seen double-digit annual growth for 22 years.
While stock markets continue to reach new highs, the US economy grew at an average rate of just 2% in the first half of 2017 – slower growth than under President Barack Obama – and is not expected to perform much better for the rest of the year.
Stock-market investors continue to hold out hope that Trump can push through policies to stimulate growth and increase corporate profits.
Moreover, sluggish wage growth implies that inflation is not reaching the US Federal Reserve’s target rate, which means that the Fed will have to normalize interest rates more slowly than expected.
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