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The lesson from history is not that the robots should be stopped; it is that we will need to confront the social-engineering and political problem of maintaining a fair balance of relative incomes across society.
The low price of oil is good news for the United States economy, because it implies higher real incomes for American consumers.
Within the US, the lower price is transferring real income from oil producers to households, which raises short-term demand because households spend a higher proportion of their incomes than oil firms do.
Too many voters, it seems, still do not feel better off, and for good reason: average incomes have barely begun to rise, following seven painful years.
The reemergence of nationalist, nativist populism is not surprising: economic stagnation, high unemployment, rising inequality and poverty, lack of opportunity, and fears about migrants and minorities “stealing” jobs and incomes have given such forces a big boost.
The ratio of housing prices to incomes is more than double that of the United States.
Meanwhile, three-quarters of near-retirees – those aged 50-64 – have annual incomes below $52,201 and average total retirement savings of less than $27,000.
Only reelecting the president could save a strong currency that guaranteed French wealth and incomes.
Private businesses would develop, jobs would be created, and incomes would rise.
One recent study estimates that incomes in the US alone could rise by $500 billion a year if global trade were to become truly free.
Similarly, incomes around the world would rise significantly from liberalizing more global trade in both goods and services.
When the US, Britain, Germany, and Sweden began to deindustrialize, their per capita incomes had reached $9,000-11,000 (at 1990 prices).
In developing countries, by contrast, manufacturing has begun to shrink while per capita incomes have been a fraction of that level: Brazil’s deindustrialization began at $5,000, China’s at $3,000, and India’s at $2,000.
The fixed-capital investments that have formed the basis of China’s growth model largely have benefited the entire economy; infrastructure improvements, for example, have enabled the rural poor to increase their productivity and incomes.
Some crucial changes in the political economy of Western capitalism in the 1980’s can also be viewed in this light: the rise of neoliberal ideology, the growing inequality of wealth and incomes, the increase in structural unemployment, the growth of financial services, globalization, the invention of post-Cold War threats to sustain military spending, and so on.
The US needs a more progressive and redistributive tax and transfer system to combat rising inequality in market incomes.
After all, lower oil prices boost real incomes and may lead to higher output in the future.
By increasing average productivity, they contribute not only to stronger growth, but also to achieving higher incomes per capita.
Last year The Economist claimed that “Growth really does help the poor: in fact it raises their incomes by about as much as it raises the incomes of everybody else.”
Yet it is deceptive to conclude from this that growth raises the incomes of the poor “.. by about as much as it raises the incomes of everybody else.”
Unexpected events, such as flooding and drought, can have dire consequences: sharp drops in rural incomes, surging food bills, and severe food shortages.
With rising incomes and unprecedented scientific and technological progress, rapid positive change on the required scale is feasible.
In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.
The economic rationale for guaranteed prices is well known: stabilizing the prices of primary products, which are subject to sharp fluctuations, stabilizes their producers’ incomes.
But primary-product prices remain much more volatile than the prices of manufactured goods and services, causing large fluctuations in producers’ incomes.
It is difficult to see how the fair-trade movement can contribute much to solving this problem, because the only serious policy for stabilizing producers’ incomes is to control supply.
Young people without the appropriate training and skills are likely to find few opportunities for decent jobs and incomes.
Instead, after four years of falling real incomes, the government announced deeply unpopular pension reforms, which included an increase in the retirement age.
That would not just reduce over-pumping, but also help to supplement rural incomes.
Most live in rural areas where the population is sparse and incomes are low, making it uneconomical to connect homes and businesses to a grid.
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